F7 install Kernel Panic -

[Bob Goodwin]

stan wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2007 09:15:32 -0400
> Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> What am I doing you ask?  I'm not sure myself but I have three boxes 
>> running F7, two installed from the Live CD and all three work nicely, 
>> however the one I installed yesterday is unhappy with the updated 
>> Kernel.  I will simply not boot from that kernel for the present, no 
>> doubt there will be another and when it comes along the situation
>> will change so I've decided to let it slide until then since it's
>> apparently not a recognized problem with a known fix.
>>
>> I thank you for your response and comments.
>>
>> Bob Goodwin
>>
>>
>>     
> Bob,
>
> Now that the system is fully updated why don't you do a 
> yum remove kernel-2.1.26-1.3228.*
>
> and when that is done do a 
>
> yum install kernel-2.1.26-1.3228.*
>
> I think the version numbers above are right, but you can check.
>
> I installed exactly how you described *except* the kernel
> update occurred after my system was running for a while and all the
> updates were there.  No issues.
>
>   
Yes, I had considered trying as you suggest but wasn't certain it was a 
logical thing to try.  There are so many inter-related things and I'm 
not really knowledgeable enough to know which way to go.

But I will give that a shot in a while.  In the mean time I simply 
switched Grub to default to the "good" kernel and that works ...

Bob Goodwin