Re: ANOTHER Fedora upgrade tale of woe...

From: Timothy Murphy (tim_at_birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie)
Date: 01/26/04

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    Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 23:16:34 +0000
    
    

    On Sunday 25 January 2004 18:20, John T Nelson wrote:

    > To make a long story short, I tried to upgrade RH8 to Fedora CORE
    > upgrade but booting CORE gives me module loading errors (out the wazoo).

    If you upgraded, wouldn't your old kernels be available?

    > Ok, so when I run lilo hoping to update this map somehow, I get a Fatal
    > error because it claims the map info doesn't exist (the file does exist
    > and I get the same message if I remove the file.... yes lilo.conf does
    > specify the right path).

    Fedora uses grub by default, rather than lilo.
    I don't know if that is the problem.
    It's probably simplest to go over to grub,
    unless you have religious objections.
    The config file for grub is /etc/grub.conf .

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