-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 December 2003 07:25 pm, Chris Kloiber wrote: > On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 07:27, Mike Watson wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I switched my Fedora hard drive from one machine to another. The > > first was an AMD K6-2 (i586), the second was an AMD Athlon XP 2800. > > All went well except for one thing---up2date still thinks I have > > an i586 instead of an Athlon. There is a kernel update available, > > but up2date picks the wrong one. > > > > In addition, I can't use RPM to instead the rpm directly. I get a > > message about the file requiring an Athlon architecture and RPM > > quits. > > > > How can I change the architecture? Why does RPM now refuse to > > install. I can't use --force either. > > rpm -ivh --ignorearch kernel-*.athlon.rpm > > Should work as a temporary fix, but there are references to the > machine's arch in /usr/lib/rpm/macros, and I'm not sure of the > correct way to fix it. Chris, Thanks! That allowed RPM to install the .athlon.rpm kernel version. Up2date still wants to install the i586 version. Now I have an Athlon kernel and i586 glibc. I don't think that will be a problem. I'll checkout /usr/lib/rpm/macros. I've also noticed that rc.sysinit has a section where HOSTTYPE=`uname - -m`, but that doesn't seem to be run at boot time. Echo $HOSTTYPE still returns i386. Any other ideas how to fix the architecture? I've switched HD like be before with RHL and have never had the problem, so I didn't expect to have it with Fedora. I wuz wrong! Mike W. - -- Registered Linux - 256979 (http://counter.il.org for more information) NRA Life ARS: W0TMW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/065F5fq6h2uDDlQRAmrpAJ0dCu188kxU6p5Wna+44c/yI2MTjgCg0Ekv dANud7Jdy3Ab67cXOSqBixw= =g+Kr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
