[sles-beta] SLES12 Beta - Running on VMware Workstation - English (UK)

[Matthias G. Eckermann]

Hello Dick and all,

On 2014-02-25 T 08:31 +0000 Waite, Dick wrote:
 
> I had the feeling yesterday evening that SLES v12
> Beta would run on a VMware Workstation. I have tried
> a Workstation 10 and 9 and it crashes. It's found
> the VMWare devices, and then comes out with:

> Linuxrc crashed. :-((
> Press ENTER to continue.
> 
> And if you do press ENTER
> Loading Basic drivers... ok

Confirmed also using KVM (i.e. it is not a VMware only
issue). Chosing "English (UK)" in the bootloader
before Installation -> crash; keeping "Englisch (US)"
or chosing "German" -> no crash.

Thanks for finding!

so long -
	MgE
 
> And then a message from VMWare:  The CPU has been
> disabled ....
> 
> The smilie after the crashed is also part of the
> message.
> 
> This morning I had a bit more time while drinking
> coffee and ran without amending the parms and what
> do I see, it's loading.
> 
> Seems it does not like being told to work with
> English(UK) if you leave it using English from over
> the dark grey Atlantic then it loads and then you
> can tell it to use English UK and it "downloads it"
> 
> So a warning to English (UK) people, don’t switch
> and at IPL time *waite* for screens after boot.
> 
> This is *very* rep-ro so I'll leave it to the grand
> people of Nürnberg to allow the good people of UK
> English to use the Queens English ;o)
> 
> So far this has been the only issue.

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