Re: FC3->FC4 upgrade hangs whilst installing kernel-smp package

From: Colin Paul Adams (colin_at_colina.demon.co.uk)
Date: 06/14/05

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Date: 14 Jun 2005 20:17:28 +0100

    >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Howarth <paul@city-fan.org> writes:

        Paul> Does the grub entry have "ramdisk_size=8192" on the "kernel"
        Paul> line?
    >> I shouldn't think so - I just reused the entry for FC1->FC3
    >> upgrade.

        Paul> The Fedora Core install CD boots the kernel with that option
        Paul> (the initrd for the installer contains just about all the
        Paul> possible modules, which makes it significantly bigger than a
        Paul> regular initrd), so it could be worth adding that option. I
        Paul> doubt that that's what causing your problem though.

    You were right to doubt it - it made no difference.

    Disk space doesn't appear to be a problem.

    There WAS a slightly older version of the 2.6.9 smp kernel installed
    (two versions in all - no UP kernel), and the FC4 smp kernel had been
    written to disk.

    I physically deleted (I can't boot my FC3 kernel fully at the moment -
    it hangs somewhere in the system tasks startup phase, so I could do
    any rpm -e commands) the FC4 kernel and the redundant FC3 kernel from
    disk.

    This time the install proceeds, not attempting to install the kernel
    at all - so I think what must have been happening was it was trying to
    upgrade the kernel twice (is that likely)?
    So I suspect I shall end up without a 2.6.11 kernel
    installed. Hopefully I can boot from the 2.6.9 kernel, and then
    extract the rpm file for the FC4 kernel from the iso (which disc is it
    on?) and manually upgrade. 

    -- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire
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