Updating FC5->FC6 (later to FC7 and F8)

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Dec 16 00:13:09 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 00:41 +0100, Przemyslaw Gawronski wrote:
> Hi, I've just tried to update FC5 to FC6 (planing to go to F8), after
> following the steps listed in the fedora wiki (Upgrading Fedora Using
> Yum) the system upgraded nearly 600 packages. But I had the feeling of
> not seeing the kernel upgraded, so I checked /boot/grub/grub.conf and
> there I've got:
> 
> title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2320.fc5smp)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5smp ro root=LABEL=/
>         initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.20-1.2320.fc5smp.img
> title Fedora Core (2.6.20-1.2312.fc5smp)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-1.2312.fc5smp ro root=LABEL=/
>         initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.20-1.2312.fc5smp.img
> 
> and those are just kernels from FC5, not one from FC6.
> 
> Is there something I'm missing? The machine isn't near me so I'm
> somewhat concerned before rebooting.
> 
> I suspect I need to have a FC6 kernel, but how do I force it to install?
> 
> Thanks for suggestions!
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what happens when you issue command...

yum install kernel

?

Craig




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