Re: ANOTHER Fedora upgrade tale of woe...

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I tried this. The update just went through the motions and concluded that 
the install was completed. No change in modules.

-- John



On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Robin Laing wrote:

> Wade Chandler wrote:
> > Lamar Owen wrote:
> > 
> >> On Monday 19 January 2004 07:18 pm, John Nelson wrote:
> >>
> 
> > 
> > Another thing you can do is put the install disk on and choose to 
> > upgrade your current system and simply walk through the install again. 
> > It shouldn't overwrite everything you've already done, but you can 
> > choose to install Grub to your mbr at that point....without the 
> > configuration.
> > 
> > Wade
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> I had a similiar problem and I had to do an install instead of an 
> upgrade from the installation CD.  I only installed the kernel.  The 
> upgrade would not work as the rpm database said that the kernel was 
> installed already.
> 
> My computer crashed during a kernel upgrade and I could not install 
> teh kernel from RPM using either booting off of the CD or the 
> emergency disk.
> 
> It did change my boot from dual (FC/XP) so I cannot boot into XP but I 
> don't care as I was about to trash XP anyways.
> 
> This was a good lesson in keeping an older kernel on the HD in cases 
> something like this happens again.
> 
> 
> 




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