It’s update time!
I just realized that I’m still sitting in front of my computer, having gone outside maybe once today to get beer. Now I am drinking a beer. A Stella Artois. I am wondering what I am going to do tonight. My gaming posse has all but dried up. I guess they decided they needed “real-lives” and “families” and that bullshit. Well I don’t need ‘em! I can have fun without those losers!
Microsoft released Virtual PC 2004 for free today. I figured this would be a fun opportunity to try out Fedora Core 5. The last time I tried it on my somewhat tired old P4 (Ayane), it was still in Test 1 and didn’t exactly make it off the ground. The machine has sat dormant since then with a half-assed attempt at installing OpenDarwin on it. I should have checked the hardware compatibility first.
First I checked to see if I had any Windows updates available. Microsoft informed me that I first needed to update the updater to Windows Genuine Advantage. I vaguely remembered hearing that it liked to phone home and check that my software was all to their liking. Not wanting to really do that, I opted out of the install, leaving my computer somewhere around an SP2 state. I remember the last time I had to call India to get my computer authorized and it wasn’t pretty.
so, I setup VPC and had my ISO image ready to go, told VPC to mount it and got an error message. Apparently it doesn’t like DVD-sized ISO images. OK, that’s easy enough. I happened to burn it first anyway. I put in the disc and reset the virtual machine. It booted and I was presented with the FC5 boot screen. I hit enter to begin the install and this is what I got:
BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0!
time for a Stella…
6 Comments
You just need a large neon beer sign and all of your troubles will melt away…
Posted by RPM on 13 July 2006 @ 7pm
maybe that is the answer…
Posted by boolean on 13 July 2006 @ 8pm
It’s always time for a Stella.
Posted by Rob Hutten on 13 July 2006 @ 9pm
good idea. I think I’ll have a stella…
Posted by boolean on 13 July 2006 @ 9pm
Maybe try VMware or QEMU?
Posted by Marc on 14 July 2006 @ 11am
Yah, that’d be the smart move. An even smarter move would be to ditch the questionable P4E CPU with HyperThreading technology. I’ve never had good luck with linux on it in our out of a VM.
Posted by boolean on 14 July 2006 @ 12pm