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

[Waite, Dick]

Grand Sunny Morning in Darmstadt,

        Very welcome, on a +ve note the installs after this with many changes to config's and file systems have gone very well. To us chaps of Somerset, English is UK ;o)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Matthias G. Eckermann [mailto:mge at suse.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 9:41 AM
To: Waite, Dick; 'Uwe Drechsel'; 'sles-beta at lists.suse.com'
Subject: Re: [sles-beta] SLES12 Beta - Running on VMware Workstation - English (UK)

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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