Update from FC4 to FC5 stole my kernel
Tony Nelson
tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Wed May 17 13:37:59 UTC 2006
At 8:52 PM -0600 5/16/06, Frank Cox wrote:
>On Tue, 16 May 2006 00:29:02 -0600
>Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
>
>> I will do that tomorrow. That computer is in an office that I can access
>> during the day. I told the owner that I would come back tomorrow and either
>> fix it there, or take it with me and fix it here at my office.
>
>It turns out that grub.conf was only partially updated during the upgrade
>process.
>
>The new smp kernel was installed in /boot and both the up and SMP FC4 kernels
>were gone. But grub.conf was changed such that it still pointed to the
>FC4 SMP
>kernel. There was no reference to the FC5 kernel that was actually
>present and
>reference to the FC4 up kernel was removed from grub.conf as well.
>
>Editing grub.conf to point to the new kernel solved the problem.
Please file a(nother) bug on this against anaconda. This incompetent grub
munging must stop!
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