Cannot boot into new kernel after first post-install Fedora 12 update

[Jay_Linux]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Reg Clemens <reg at dwf.com> wrote:

> This is on a Fedora 12 i386 system (new install from DVD).  On doing
> online
> > update (though PackageKit module) and selecting all updates (about 850
> MB) ,
> > on rebooting, I find that I cannot boot into the new kernel. Though the
> new
> > kernel with images are there in /etc/boot it still boots into the old
> > kernel:
> >
> > New - 2.6.31.9-174.fc12
> > Old - 2.6.31.5-174.fc12
> >
> > I had selected all packages (green, orange, red) from the Update Applet
> > window.
> >
> > The contents of the /boot dir are as in this image:
> > http://www.imagebam.com/image/a17ab164358024
> >
> > Any suggestions on how to proceed. or anybody else with a similar problem
> w/
> > a wrokaround ?
> >
> Well, I had a similar problem with F11.
> I was doing full installs on 3 separate machines (Im working on a 4th at
> the
> moment)
> in both 32 and 64bit mode.
>
> I was able to do the install, but the following boot would fail.
> Using the Rescue option on the DVD I was able to boot the system, so it
> really
> seemed
> that
>    (1) the boot block being written was bad
>    (2) the driver was writing a bad boot block.
>
> I fought this for almost a week, and have no idea what finally solved the
> problem.
> I tried rewriting the boot block by doing an install of an earlier Fedora
> in
> an unused
> partition, and a number of other things...  Something finally worked.  But
> I
> fear
> my next upgrade.
>
> I posted my problem previously to this list, and didnt get any useful
> responses,
> Im glad at least to see someone else with a similar problem.
>
> Is it possible that Fedora/64 writes a bad boot block?
> That it is having problems with some DVD players?
>
> --
>                                        Reg.Clemens
>                                        reg at dwf.com


Thanks all, for your suggestions. Finally, I had to re-install Fedora 12
from the DVD (as rescue mode chroot /mnt/sysimag did not help and
re-installing GRUB to / bootsector did not work).
However, this time I did the updates through cmd-line (tty) as

# yum -update -y --skip-broken
... (/ after first updating yum and PackageKit /)

Two packages could not be installed due to depsolve problems
(mesa-dri-drivers-i686-0:7.7-2.fc12 and mesa-libGL.i686), but that does not
seem to have made any difference.

Now, can boot into the new kernel (2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686.PAE). Though, I
have no idea why it updated to the PAE kernel (*maybe because the earlier
kernel (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE) was also -PAE*). This desktop PC has
only 2 GB of RAM and Ubuntu 9.04 has a non PAE kernel (2.6.28-17-generic)

Jay

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