Problem with kernel upgrade.

[Sam Varshavchik]

Geoff Hacker writes:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I wanted to upgrade my kernel from version 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl to
> 2.6.5-1.358. I wanted to do it via the rpms in the Fedora Core 2
> distribution. I have used the rpm -Uvh command with all the kernel*

There's your mistake.  Do not use rpm -U with kernel packages.

Always use rpm -i.

> identity problems, then I don't know how to solve them. What else can
> I do to try to get the correct version of the kernel to boot, and/or
> report its version number correctly?

Try rpm -i --force

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