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Subject: Re: PPC64 on IBM KVM saga: 11 CURRENT ALPHA 6
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How, exactly, doesn't it boot? I have installed, and booted, a variety 
of these ISOs on both POWER7 and POWER8 CPUs with up to 64 threads, 
including ALPHA6. (The issue where you have multiple cores and threading 
turned off should be fixed in BETA1)
-Nathan

On 07/06/16 03:08, Luciano Mannucci wrote:
> The installation iso boots. With more than one CPU it hangs just after
> it has noticed that there is at least a second one.
> Knowing that it might be a sparce cpuids problem, I've assigned just
> one to test. It does install (WOW!), though the installed version wont
> boot.
>
> Cheers 4 now,
>
> Luciano.