On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Christoph Wickert wrote: > Am Mo, den 19.04.2004 schrieb runlevel0 um 14:59: > > Hy folks, > > > > I'm writin this from an Knoppix 3.2 Live-CD in order to warno you about some > > possible toubles installing thr 2.6.5 kernel via Yum. > > > > The URL was published yesterday here in this list. > > Which one? http://people.redhat.com/~arjanv/2.6/ ? Works fine for me. > > > > > The problem is that the damn think fails to reboot, but that's nothing > > specially important, since many of us have a huge collection of kernels... > > > > Or at least that was was I thought after rebooting. > > > > The fact is that this package *erases any other kernel* you would have in > > /boot !!!!!!!!!! > > > > yum install foo vs. yum update foo! You need to install the kernel, not > upgrade it. 'kernel' is a 'installonlypkgs' (man yum.conf) for yum. i.e. Even if the user invokes 'yum update' the 'kernel' package gets installed - but it does not erase the old versions. Check /var/log/yum.log - for the log of the transaction (perhaps post it here) Satish
