Re: F11 beta xfce i686 spin

[psmith <johnsmithdoe14 googlemail com>]

Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:14:12 +0100
> psmith <johnsmithdoe14 googlemail com> wrote:
>
>   
> > thanks for the reply kevin, i thought you may be involved as you are
> > the xfce guy but i wasn't sure if you were involved in spining the
> > beta iso's
> >     
>
> Well, release engineering does the spinning, I just handle the
> kickstart that they use. :)
>
>   
> > first hardware is acer aspire one A150, intel 945GME gfx, intel 82801 
> > chipset, atom cpu, 1.5GBram, sata HD, this was booted usb made from 
> > verified iso (sha256 matches that that came with the iso)
> >     
>
> Did you use the f10 liveusb-creator to make this usb? 
> If so, that is not going to work. Can you 
> yum --enablerepo=rawhide upgrade syslinux
> and then re-run the libusb-creator on it? 
>
>   
unfortunately i already did this after seeing the syslinux/grey screen 
bug, i even also used the kids machine and tried the windoze 
liveusb-creator version. then after a suggestion from jeremy katz i 
downloaded his newest livecd-iso-to-disk from his site but all to the 
same effect
> > sencond hardware is gigabyte GA-M59SLI-S5 mobo, geforce 8800GTX,
> > Athlon X2 5600, raid0, 4GB ram. this was booted from both the usb and
> > a burned copy of the iso.
> >     
>
> Did you get the exact same behavior from the cd as the usb here?
>
>   
yes exactly the same problem, though on the desktop machine i did see a 
lot of acpi errors flashing past at the begining of the boot process 
that don't show up on the netbook
> > both these machines happily run F10 no problems. and both will boot
> > from the gnome i686 live spin (with some cajoling, like changing the
> > hw timer to jiffy instead of tsc on the aspire as tsc is unstable :/)
> >
> > but with the xfce spin both of them stop when it should be loading 
> > plymouth, the machine isn't frozen as it responds to plugging in and 
> > removing usb mice etc, and also replies to the three finger salute
> > and tells me it's going down for reboot.
> >     
>
> Strange. 
>
>   
> > i look forward to seeing if you guys can get any farther than me
> >     
>
> Yeah, trying some things here now...
>
>   
> > phil
> >     
>
> kevin
>   
thanks again for the help kevin, it's much appreciated :-)

phil