On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 12:13 +0100, Scott van Looy wrote: > Today Jim Cornette did spake thusly: > > > Scott van Looy wrote: > > > >> Doing an update via yum (I know! But it saves bandwidth...) I got the FC6 > >> SMP kernel headers and no upgrade to the kernel-smp package...so I had to > >> manually install the kernel i686 RPM... > >> > > > > I believe that the kernel is built with smp enabled and you do not need to > > use a variation marked as smp when running FC6. One kernel for single and > > multiprocessors from now on. > > Yes, I know. I was stating that yum *didn't* upgrade my kernel, possibly > because of this. I was left with the kernel-smp from fc5 still installed > and running and yum telling me there were no more updates. I had to find a > mirror, download the correct kernel RPM and install it using RPM > > FC5 x86_64 > FC6 x86_64 > I am not sure I follow what you are saying. I run a dual core athlon and have been running FC5 x86_64 since FC5 came out. I have _never_ seen a 64 bit smp kernel in FC5. Yes, they had an smp kernel for the i686 kernel initially, but that was also removed long ago. If you had not updated fully and still had the smp kernel installed/in use, it is possible that the upgrade might fail that way. It should not have failed if you had the FC5 installation fully updated before you started the upgrade. > -- > Scott van Looy - email:me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx | web:www.ethosuk.org.uk > site:www.freakcity.net - the in place for outcasts since 2003 > PGP Fingerprint: 7180 5543 C6C4 747B 7E74 802C 7CF9 E526 44D9 D4A7 > ------------------------------------------- > |/// /// /// /// WIDE LOAD /// /// /// ///| > ------------------------------------------- > > "I'm not a god, I was misquoted." > -- Lister, Red Dwarf >
