[sles-beta] [ANNOUNCE] SLES 11 SP3 Beta1 available

[Marcus Moeller]

Am 15.02.2013 15:35, schrieb developer at mivadev.com:
> To Suse Team,
> Thank you for the invite but when i go to the download site I do not get access to download anything and tellning me im not participating in
> any beta.
> Regards,
> Andrzej J. Waszkiewicz

This has one benefit: Now we all know each other ;)

Greets
Marcus

> On Fri 13/02/15 03:40 , Thorsten Kukuk kukuk at suse.de sent:
>>
>> Dear Beta Tester,
>>
>> we are happy to announce
>>
>> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3 Beta1
>>
>>
>> ISO images are now available for download now. Please go to
>> http://www.novell.com/beta and select "View my
>> beta page".Here you should see all Beta's you are part of.
>>
>> We offer 2 DVD ISOs: DVD1 contains the binaries, the second
>> DVD the sources.
>>
>> Please verify the md5sum of the ISO using the MD5SUMS file, which can
>> be found in the same directory on the download servers.
>>
>>
>> WARNING: There are UEFI firmwares out, which are buggy and using
>> UEFI on these machines can make your machine completly unuseable.
>> This is nothing we can fix or workaround with our product,
>> you need a firmware update for these machines.
>>
>>
>> Known issues:
>> - FF17: Homepage is not set
>> - some old ATI cards have issues with radeon (KMS), especially on
>> "RV630/Radeon HD 2600 (1002:9589)" cards.
>> Workaround: Use kernel option "nomodeset" and radeonhd driver in
>> xorg.conf.- UEFI/Secure Boot
>> - DVD images can be booted with Secure Boot mode enabled, but there
>> is an issue preventing correctly loading installer later in the
>> boot process (it might also affect UEFI system with Secure Boot
>> disabled). To workaround this issue, we recommend to dump the
>> ISO image on an USB stick (you must run
>> "isohybrid --uefi " before dumping the ISO
>> imageon USB stick, otherwise USB Stick won't be recognized by UEFI
>> firmware properly). Only DVD image can be dumped to USB Stick.
>> - An inconsistency between YaST and elilo prevent proper installation
>> of shim loader, needed to boot installed system in Secure Boot mode.
>> To properly install a system on a Secure Boot system, for Beta1, we
>> recommend the following setup:
>> * disable Secure Boot, install the system (make sure to boot with
>> UEFI enabled and not legacy/BIOS mode)
>> * on installed system, in YaST / Boot Loader / Boot Loader
>> Installation.Make sure "ELILO" is selected as Bootloader and in
>> "Boot Loader Options", check "Support Secure Boot"
>> * exit Yast
>> * as root run "zypper in shim grub2-x86_64-efi"
>> * edit "/etc/elilo.conf" and replace "secure-boot" line
>> with"secure-boot = on"
>> * run elilo
>> * run elilo --refresh-EBM
>> * reboot your system and enable "Secure Boot" in UEFI
>> firmware* your system should now boot in Secure Boot mode, when selecting
>> "SB SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP3" in EFI Boot Menu.
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance for all your testing
>>
>> Your SUSE Linux Enterprise Team
>> --
>> Thorsten Kukuk, Project Manager/Release Manager SLES
>> SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg
>> GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG
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