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Urs Beyerle <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:50:08 +0200
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Does the LiveDVD still boots on your old hardware - apart from failing mcelog?

Many thanks for testing!

	Urs



On 08/21/2012 11:26 AM, David Crick wrote:
> Have now tried RC2 on the older machine and it
> still gives the boot message error about mcelog.
>
> Guess this is a machine (hardware) specific thing.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 6:32 PM, David Crick <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> x86_64 Live DVD on a machine that normally runs SL6.2.
>>
>> Booted and launched into KDE fine.
>>
>>
>> No boot message error about mcelog compared to RC1,
>> but this could be because I'm running this on a newer
>> machine compared to my SL6.0 box.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Urs Beyerle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> many thanks for testing RC1.
>>>
>>> Here comes RC2 (2012-08-20) of SL 6.3 LiveCD, LiveMiniCD and LiveDVD:
>>>
>>> http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/testing/63/i386
>>> http://www.livecd.ethz.ch/download/testing/63/x86_64
>>>
>>> If no showstopper is found, this RC will be released in a few days.
>>>
>>> Changes compared to RC1:
>>>
>>> - All recent updates included
>>> - Size of LiveCD reduced. Now it should definitely fit on a 700MB CD
>>> - Add boot parameter "eject": LiveCD/DVD will be ejected before
>>> shutdown/reboot (not the default)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>>      Urs

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