I will test 11th of april... 10.04.2013 21:08 пользователь "Adam Williamson" <[email protected]> написал:
> Hi, folks. This is a special testing request for F19 Alpha. > > There are known to be a couple of bugs that can cause UEFI installation to > fail because there isn't enough space in the firmware NVRAM; as a fix for > that somewhat-infamous bricking bug on some laptops, the current F19 kernel > refuses to write to the NVRAM if it's 50% or more full. As Josh put it: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/**show_bug.cgi?id=947142<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=947142> > > "The kernel now limits efivars from using more than 50% of the available > firmware space. This has some known deficiencies if the firmware on the > machine doesn't do garbage collection to free up space. This is being > worked on upstream." > > Unfortunately we really don't know how many systems are likely to have > problems with this mechanism, and so we're finding it hard to decide if we > need to block the Alpha on the kernel improvements. So we're asking that > anyone who has a machine with a UEFI firmware on which they can safely do a > disposable test install - to a spare disk or partition or whatever - try > and do a *native UEFI* install of F19 Alpha RC2 (if writing to a USB stick > with livecd-iso-to-disk, remember to pass --efi to make a UEFI bootable > stick): > > https://dl.fedoraproject.org/**pub/alt/stage/19-Alpha-RC2/<https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/19-Alpha-RC2/> > > and see if you get a successful install. Bear in mind that there are > obviously other bugs you might run into as this is an Alpha build - if you > run into anything else by all means report it separately, but what we're > principally interested in is, if you make it to bootloader installation > (one of the last things done in the install process), does it succeed, or > do you get an error? And if it succeeds, does the installed system boot - > at least as far as grub? > > If as many people as possible could test and send their feedback to this > thread or as a comment on the bug report, that'd be great. Thanks! > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora > http://www.happyassassin.net > -- > test mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.**org/mailman/listinfo/test<https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test>
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