Fedora 9 Alpha
Today Fedora 9 Alpha was released and I was very curious to it, so I downloaded it immediately and created a new Virtual Machine on Microsoft Virtual PC. But my first experience wasn’t a very good one.
After downloading, I fired up the Virtual Machine and booted the Fedora ISO, which presented me the Welcome Screen.
After continuing the booting process of the kernel stopped straightaway when it crashed with Virtual PC poping up a dialog box saying “An unrecoverable processor error has been encountered. The virtual machine will reset now.”
I haven’t had much time to play with it, so I haven’t found a solution yet. I also don’t know if this only happens on Virtual PC or also on a “normal” workstation, but I will find out soon. I’ll keep you updated!
Update: This can be fixed by adding noreplace-paravirt to the kernel arguments.
From the Fedora mailinglist: The Alpha release provides the first opportunity for the wider community to become involved with the testing of Rawhide: representing a sanitised snapshot of Fedora’s development branch, which sees rapid changes and will become the next major release, it should boot on the majority of systems, providing both an opportunity to get a look at what new features will be included in the next release and also an opportunity to provide feedback and bug reports to help ensure that the next release is as good as possible.Some highlights of Fedora 9 Alpha: * GNOME 2.21 Development Release
* KDE 4.0
* Firefox 3 Beta 2
* Support for resizing ext2, ext3 and NTFS partitions during install
* Support for creating and installing to encrypted filesystems
* PackageKit
* Kernel 2.6.24And numerous other improvements and enhancements.
Getting it:
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The Alpha release is available both through our mirroring system and via bittorrent.
For direct http access to a local mirror:
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/test/9-Alpha/
For a list of mirrors carrying the content and the various protocols they support:
http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/9-Alpha/
For bittorrent:
http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
More Information:
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For more information regarding the Alpha release, please visit the release notes page:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/Alpha/ReleaseNotes
April 24th, 2008 at 14:46
I recently download the Fedora 9 Preview hoping to test it out in Virtual PC but ran into the exact same problems. I’ve tried a range of kernel params to try and get it working but without much luck (after previously finding Fedora 8 required the extra ‘vesa i8042.noloop’ to work properly).
Hope to here from anyone who has a solution to this.
April 30th, 2008 at 11:52
I’ve just installed Fedora 8 (using the vesa i8042.noloop param, all installed ok - but niow that i’ve updated the kernel - i’m getting this error also, i’ll just have to use the older kernel for now i guess! Any helo out there!
Joe
May 16th, 2008 at 3:07
I’ve done some searching, and apparently F9-PREVIEW needed “the kernel
option ‘noreplace-paravirt’” to work in VPC. I tried it and the “processor error” went away. However, as I’m writing this I’m in the middle of media check, so I can’t guarantee that this will be the solution.
Good Luck.
May 16th, 2008 at 18:49
Gearbox… Thanks! That worked perfectly for my VPC install.