On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 06:53, John T Nelson wrote:
I tried this. The update just went through the motions and concluded
that
the install was completed. No change in modules.
-- John
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Robin Laing wrote:
> Wade Chandler wrote:
> > Lamar Owen wrote:
> >
> >> On Monday 19 January 2004 07:18 pm, John Nelson wrote:
> >>
>
> >
> > Another thing you can do is put the install disk on and choose to
> > upgrade your current system and simply walk through the install again.
> > It shouldn't overwrite everything you've already done, but you can
> > choose to install Grub to your mbr at that point....without the
> > configuration.
> >
> > Wade
> >
> >
> >
>
> I had a similiar problem and I had to do an install instead of an
> upgrade from the installation CD. I only installed the kernel. The
> upgrade would not work as the rpm database said that the kernel was
> installed already.
>
> My computer crashed during a kernel upgrade and I could not install
> teh kernel from RPM using either booting off of the CD or the
> emergency disk.
>
> It did change my boot from dual (FC/XP) so I cannot boot into XP but I
> don't care as I was about to trash XP anyways.
>
> This was a good lesson in keeping an older kernel on the HD in cases
> something like this happens again.
>
>
>
And you asked the installer to install GRUB?
Sturla