Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-04-18 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Monday, 18 April 2022 at 12:17, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > > > > Dell XPS 15 L502X 8GB RAM (BIOS only) > > BIOS-only on a laptop might mean the firmware quirk which demands > to see the "boot/active" flag at some MBR partition table slot. > > See a

Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-04-18 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Monday, 18 April 2022 at 19:00, Brian C. Lane wrote: > On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 03:12:59PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski > wrote: > > I've tested your ISO with: > > > > - Dell XPS 15 L502X 8GB RAM (BIOS only) CD-R physical media > > > > Booted and started the installer reasonably fast

Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-04-18 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Monday, 18 April 2022 at 04:41, John Reiser wrote: > > - Dell XPS 15 L502X 8GB RAM (BIOS only) CD-R physical media > > It would be very nice to run /sbin/dmidecode, which is on the .iso, > and report the "BIOS Information" section, such as: Here's mine: Handle 0x, DMI type 0, 24 bytes BIO

Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-04-18 Thread Brandon Nielsen via devel
On 4/15/22 5:06 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Initial test with a CD-R and an HP Compaq 8510w are mixed. It boots to GRUB, but it spins a long time blinking the HDD light displaying nothing but "Welcome to GRUB". It eventually spits out "failure reading sector 0x4f838 from 'hd31'." 'hd31' loo

RE: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-18 Thread Stewart Smith via devel
Chris Adams writes: > Once upon a time, Jared Dominguez said: >> Looks like they are using vSphere, which supports UEFI VMs. The same is >> true for KVM, Xen and bhyve, so it's more about what feature set cloud >> providers using these hypervisors are choosing to turn on. > > In a way, this is si

Re: F37 Change: Deprecate Legacy BIOS (System-Wide Change proposal)

2022-04-18 Thread Stewart Smith via devel
Ben Cotton writes: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecateLegacyBIOS > > == Summary == > Make UEFI a hardware requirement for new Fedora installations on > platforms that support it (x86_64). Legacy BIOS support is not > removed, but new non-UEFI installation is not supported on those

Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-04-18 Thread Geraldo Simião Kutz
Tested this iso with an USB stick on this machine here and it passed the tests and Anaconda started correctly. Machine: Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP G42 Notebook PC Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 1484 v: 77.19 BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: F.17 date: 07/06/2010 CPU Dual core Pentium T

Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-04-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, i wrote: > > xorrisofs option --mbr-force-bootable Chris Murphy wrote: > with the bit set it means older versions of > Tianocore or anything based on Tianocore up until maybe 6 months ago, > won't boot. Is this maybe about the code snippet of Tianocore which Alexander E. Patrakov showed in t

Re: fedora-obsolete-packages for arch specific issues

2022-04-18 Thread Miro Hrončok
On 17. 04. 22 15:56, Miroslav Suchý wrote: We have specific issues during an Fedora upgrade. In past, it was issue with rdma-core [1] during upgrade to F34. Nowadays, for upgrade to F36, we have an issue with lilv [2] [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1919864 [2] https://bugzil

Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-04-18 Thread Brian C. Lane
On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 03:12:59PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > I've tested your ISO with: > > - Dell XPS 15 L502X 8GB RAM (BIOS only) CD-R physical media > > Booted and started the installer reasonably fast > > - same machine USB media (written to whole device using dd) > > B

Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-04-18 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 5:17 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > Hi, > > Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > > > > Dell XPS 15 L502X 8GB RAM (BIOS only) > > BIOS-only on a laptop might mean the firmware quirk which demands > to see the "boot/active" flag at some MBR partition table slot. > > See a th

Re: BIOS boot - an alternative approach

2022-04-18 Thread Neal Gompa
On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 11:26 AM Ian Pilcher wrote: > > I'm not a Fedora developer, just a long time interested user, so take > this for what it's worth. I'd like to suggest an alternative approach > to the BIOS boot (and potentially other similar boot issues), or at > least suggest that this app

BIOS boot - an alternative approach

2022-04-18 Thread Ian Pilcher
I'm not a Fedora developer, just a long time interested user, so take this for what it's worth. I'd like to suggest an alternative approach to the BIOS boot (and potentially other similar boot issues), or at least suggest that this approach be discussed. Basically, I suggest that Fedora stop wor

Fedora-36-20220418.n.0 compose check report

2022-04-18 Thread Fedora compose checker
No missing expected images. Failed openQA tests: 8/229 (x86_64), 10/161 (aarch64) New failures (same test not failed in Fedora-36-20220417.n.0): ID: 1229381 Test: x86_64 Workstation-live-iso evince URL: https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/1229381 ID: 1229453 Test: aarch64 Server-dvd-i

Fedora-IoT-36-20220418.0 compose check report

2022-04-18 Thread Fedora compose checker
No missing expected images. Failed openQA tests: 1/15 (aarch64) Old failures (same test failed in Fedora-IoT-36-20220417.0): ID: 1229728 Test: aarch64 IoT-dvd_ostree-iso iot_clevis@uefi URL: https://openqa.fedoraproject.org/tests/1229728 Passed openQA tests: 15/15 (x86_64), 14/15 (aarch64)

F37 Change: Replace jwhois package with whois for Fedora Workstation (Self-Contained Change proposal)

2022-04-18 Thread Ben Cotton
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Replace_jwhois_with_whois_in_Fedora_Workstation == Summary == Fedora Workstation product core group includes `jwhois` package. Replace it with `whois` package which is more actively developed. == Detailed Description == `Fedora Workstation product core` gro

Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-04-18 Thread John Reiser
It would be very nice to run /sbin/dmidecode, which is on the .iso, and report the "BIOS Information" section, such as: Is the attached any use? In the attachment I see these interesting lines (snipped): = SMBIOS 3.0.0 present. BIOS Information Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.

Fedora 36 compose report: 20220418.n.0 changes

2022-04-18 Thread Fedora Rawhide Report
OLD: Fedora-36-20220417.n.0 NEW: Fedora-36-20220418.n.0 = SUMMARY = Added images:2 Dropped images: 1 Added packages: 0 Dropped packages:0 Upgraded packages: 0 Downgraded packages: 0 Size of added packages: 0 B Size of dropped packages:0 B Size of upgraded

Re: Unretiring Icedtea-web

2022-04-18 Thread Florian Apolloner
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 09:25:36AM -0500, Steve Cossette wrote: > There aren't too many of them today, but I guess they > still exist. I actually use them quite frequently to access remote control on IPMI/KVM webpages on "older" servers. Luckily newer servers do provide HTML5 based remote acce

Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-04-18 Thread Philip Rhoades via devel
People, On 2022-04-18 12:41, John Reiser wrote: - Dell XPS 15 L502X 8GB RAM (BIOS only) CD-R physical media It would be very nice to run /sbin/dmidecode, which is on the .iso, and report the "BIOS Information" section, such as: Is the attached any use? Phil. = # dmidecode 3.3 Getti

Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-04-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > > > Dell XPS 15 L502X 8GB RAM (BIOS only) BIOS-only on a laptop might mean the firmware quirk which demands to see the "boot/active" flag at some MBR partition table slot. See a thread of grub-bug (and later grub-devel) from 2015/16 https://marc.info

Fedora-Cloud-34-20220418.0 compose check report

2022-04-18 Thread Fedora compose checker
No missing expected images. Soft failed openQA tests: 1/8 (x86_64), 1/8 (aarch64) (Tests completed, but using a workaround for a known bug) Old soft failures (same test soft failed in Fedora-Cloud-34-20220417.0): ID: 1229296 Test: x86_64 Cloud_Base-qcow2-qcow2 cloud_autocloud URL: https://op

Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-04-18 Thread Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
On Monday, 18 April 2022 at 10:13, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > > - same machine USB media (written to whole device using dd) > > Boot fails with "Operation system not found" error. > > (Looks like my optimism was somewhat premature.) > > I wonder from

Re: grub2 BIOS booting iso and code

2022-04-18 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > - same machine USB media (written to whole device using dd) > Boot fails with "Operation system not found" error. (Looks like my optimism was somewhat premature.) I wonder from where this message comes. Was it really "Operation system" and not "Operati