Is It Worth Installing F9 Alpha?

[Andrew Farris]

John Summerfield wrote:
> Andrew Farris wrote:
>> Antonio M wrote:
>>> And on these particular bugs, I don't see much improvement.
>>
>> I've got outstanding bugs reported that are not getting fixed yet too, 
>> thats mostly a manpower issue.  Its still good to have them reported 
>> though.
>>
> AM
> I don't have a working f9 kernel/mkinitrd bug report. I update it daily 
> - well whenever a new kernel fails. I expect it will be fixed, probably 
> before the first beta - it seems to me a bug that prevents someone from 
> booting should be well up the list of things to fix.
> 
> I might be able to do some more diagnosis when someone tels me why 
> inserting busybox isn't working,
> 
> I'm sure it will be done soon, but it is frustrating waiting.
> 
> Then, I can try xen and see whether my problems with kvm persist.

Speaking of this, have you tried installing the kernel version which works for 
me to install F9 kernels from? 2.6.24-1.28

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=35327

I can install most of the latest kernels using that and the latest mkinitrd.

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