The return of rawhide live images

[John Poelstra]

Jesse Keating said the following on 07/27/2007 01:43 PM Pacific Time:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:38:21 -0700
> John Poelstra <poelstra at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
>> Dead On Arrival
>>
>> 1) Boot i386 gnome on Dell 400SC
>> 2) Get grub screen
>> 3) Select boot from image
>> 4) initrd loads
>> 5) "Ready" message
>> 5) machine reboots itself
> 
> Hurray.  Another Dell that can duplicate this.  It's like Fedora 7 all
> over again.  This hits boot.iso booting as well from the installable
> trees, but only seems to hit Dell users.
> 
> 

It *is* like F7 all over again.  I guess you can say it isn't a "regression" ;-)

After handing out a bunch of F7 Live CDs yesterday at OSCON I thought I'd run it at home and compare to Ubuntu 7.04.  Much to my shame I found that F7 doesn't boot.  The same F7 Live CD kernel panics on my IBM T41 Thinkpad too.

I'm wondering now how many of the people I encouraged to "give linux a try" will simply throw the disk in the trash and move on.  I realize there is a note in the CD sleeve to check the website for known problems, but would good is a trial live CD that you can't even get it to boot? ... a major manufacturer (Dell) at that.  I don't think most people are going to go to the website to look if the CD doesn't even boot.  I wouldn't.

Next time we create a bunch of CDs and DVDs for the handing out I seriously think we need to reconsider not simply going with whatever was GA.

John