[oi-dev] OI 2017-05 snapshot: AMD Athlon 64 (K8) compatibility issues

[Jean-Pierre André]

Jean-Pierre André wrote:
> ken mays via oi-dev wrote:
>> On that note, be aware of prior notice on AMD64 Athlon 64-based
>> computers and the use of software from:
>
> I have such a computer, which I intended to upgrade to 2017.04
>
> Is booting on a live-usb a valid test for presence/absence of
> further problems ahead ? (IOW is the problem in the new loader or
> in the kernel ?)

As nobody told whether the issue lies within the new loader or
in the kernel, and bug #8169 pointed at an issue in the loader,
I tried updating the current installation with the grub loader
kept in place (BE_HAS_GRUB=true in /etc/default/be).

After the update, I can only boot into the new BE in single user
mode. Two kinds of errors are displayed :

1) svc:/system/metainit: default:
         method "lib/svc/method/svc-metainit"
         failed with exit status 127
(shown three times then transitioned to maintenance).

2) APIC Error interrupt on CPU 1. Status 0 = 0, Status 1 = 80
This second error is traditional on this computer and is
normally avoided by the boot option "acpi-user-options=0x2"
which was in place.

Are these the errors which I was warned against ?

Have they something to do with bug #8169 ?

Do they mean I am kicked out, or is there a way to update
to the latest state before the bug was created ?

Jean-Pierre