Alan J. Gagne wrote:
Perhaps the kernel that is already installed is the i586 kernel rather
than the i686 kernel?
$ rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n' kernel\*
Paul.
Thanks Paul !!
That was exactly the problem.
A little curious why fc6 install used the i586 where
all previous versions(3,4,5) that have been used on this box
where i686.
# uname -a
Linux xxx.xxx.com 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 #1 SMP Mon Oct 16 14:54:20 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211941
This may well be added to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common
soon. The FC5 version of that page was well worth a look for people
installing that release.
Paul.
