[FC1] Dangerous 2.6.5 Kernel Instalation (!) WARNING

[Jeff Vian]

Christoph Wickert wrote:

>Am Mo, den 19.04.2004 schrieb runlevel0 um 14:59:
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>>Hy folks,
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>>I'm writin this from an Knoppix 3.2 Live-CD in order to warno you about some 
>>possible toubles installing thr 2.6.5 kernel via Yum.
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>>The URL was published yesterday here in this list.
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>Which one? http://people.redhat.com/~arjanv/2.6/ ? Works fine for me.
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>>The problem is that the damn think fails to reboot, but that's nothing 
>>specially important, since many of us have a huge collection of kernels...
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>>Or at least that was was I thought after rebooting.
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>>The fact is that this package *erases any other kernel* you would have in 
>>/boot   !!!!!!!!!!
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>yum install foo vs. yum update foo! You need to install the kernel, not
>upgrade it.
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>Christoph
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In my experience, yum update foo (for the kernel) defaults to install 
instead of update.
When I updated my kernel from 2115 to 2174 it did at least. ;-)

However,  if you do  "rpm -U kernel.blah"  it WILL update it and usually 
causes a lot of problems.

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