Update from FC4 to FC5 stole my kernel

Dan grinnz at gmail.com
Thu May 18 06:41:04 UTC 2006


Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 08:37, Tony Nelson wrote:
>
>   
>>> The new smp kernel was installed in /boot and both the up and SMP FC4 kernels
>>> were gone.  But grub.conf was changed such that it still pointed to the
>>> FC4 SMP
>>> kernel.  There was no reference to the FC5 kernel that was actually
>>> present and
>>> reference to the FC4 up kernel was removed from grub.conf as well.
>>>
>>> Editing grub.conf to point to the new kernel solved the problem.
>>>       
>> Please file a(nother) bug on this against anaconda.  This incompetent grub
>> munging must stop!
>>     
>
> Are full version-level upgrades even supposed to work?
>
>   
Yeah...that's why anaconda offers the option. Personally, I've never 
tried it.
-Dan




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