smart mkinitrd upgrade, kernel downgrade?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Anthony Messina wrote:

> Dave Jones wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 16, 2006 at 07:47:08AM -0600, Anthony Messina wrote:
>> > Anthony Messina wrote:
>> >> is anyone else getting this: the mkinitrd package wants i586 kernel, so
>> >> it wants to remove the i686 kernel?
>> >
>> > this dep problem doesn't happen with yum.
>>
>> looks like smart, isnt.
>
> hah! you're right. though, i must say, it's usually the other way
> around. have a good day.

Are you sure you *have* the i686 kernel installed?  There's an FC6 
installer bug where it will install the i586 kernel (and kernel-devel) on 
some systems that should have the i686 kernel installed.  The workaround 
is to manually force-upgrade the kernel to the equivalent i686 version 
(uninstall and reinstall kernel-devel too) and reboot.

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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