FC3->FC4 upgrade hangs whilst installing kernel-smp package
Colin Paul Adams
colin at colina.demon.co.uk
Tue Jun 14 18:02:23 UTC 2005
>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> writes:
Paul> Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>> I'm upgrading my test system from FC3 to FC4. Because I don't
>> have a working CD drive at the moment, I'm installer from disk,
>> using a /boot/installer directory with the vmlinuz and initrd
>> from disc1.iso placed there, and a GRUB entry pointing to it.
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.
>> the install hangs whilst installing the package:
>> kernel-smp-2.6.1-1.etc.
Paul> You might want to try removing the SMP kernel (and any old
Paul> kernels) before doing the upgrade and then adding in the SMP
Paul> kernel again post-installation.
I suspect I only have one kernel installed on that machine, but I'll
check it out.
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Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire
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