On Monday 27 March 2006 17:32, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>> "DJ" == Dave Jones
<davej(a)redhat.com> writes:
>>
>> FC5 doesn't install a SMP kernel on this machine
DJ> sounds like an installer bug.
The default install is kind of bizarre:
title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=/dev/vg0/root vga=6
initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
title Fedora Core-up (2.6.15-1.2054_FC5)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 ro root=/dev/vg0/root vga=6
initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5.img
I'm not sure why it decided to include two identical stanzas with
"-up" appended to one. The one kernel that's installed is the i586 UP
one. I installed the i686 UP kernel, and it does start to boot but
panics around the time it should mount the real root filesystem. This
might just be an initrd thing; can you install both the i586 and i686
kernels at the same time?
I'd wager that if the installer only gave you an i586 kernel, it didn't give
you the i686 glibc either. I wonder if that could be inducing some of the
problems you're seeing w/i686 kernels... I'd check your glibc version...
rpm -q --qf='%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n' glibc
...and maybe try slapping the i686 one in there for giggles.
(Note to self, maybe its time to see what an FC5 install does on my own
EPIA...)
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Jarod Wilson
jarod(a)wilsonet.com