FC6

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Thu Oct 26 09:58:50 UTC 2006


On Oct 25 Jeff Vian did spake thusly:

> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 12:13 +0100, Scott van Looy wrote:
>> Today Jim Cornette did spake thusly:
>>
>>> Scott van Looy wrote:
>>>
>>>> Doing an update via yum (I know! But it saves bandwidth...) I got the FC6
>>>> SMP kernel headers and no upgrade to the kernel-smp package...so I had to
>>>> manually install the kernel i686 RPM...
>>>>
>>>
>>> I believe that the kernel is built with smp enabled and you do not need to
>>> use a variation marked as smp when running FC6. One kernel for single and
>>> multiprocessors from now on.
>>
>> Yes, I know. I was stating that yum *didn't* upgrade my kernel, possibly
>> because of this. I was left with the kernel-smp from fc5 still installed
>> and running and yum telling me there were no more updates. I had to find a
>> mirror, download the correct kernel RPM and install it using RPM
>>
>> FC5 x86_64 > FC6 x86_64
>>
> I am not sure I follow what you are saying.

I was upgrading an x86_64 machine at the time...I actually meant i386 - 
yum didn't upgrade my fc5 smp kernel to a fc6 kernel when going from fc5 
to fc6

>
> I run a dual core athlon and have been running FC5 x86_64 since FC5 came
> out.
> I have _never_ seen a 64 bit smp kernel in FC5.  Yes, they had an smp
> kernel for the i686 kernel initially, but that was also removed long
> ago.
>
> If you had not updated fully and still had the smp kernel installed/in
> use,  it is possible that the upgrade might fail that way.  It should
> not have failed if you had the FC5 installation fully updated before you
> started the upgrade.

It was...

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