Yum grabbing wrong kernel update????
Bill Perkins
perk at iag.net
Fri Nov 4 03:23:35 UTC 2005
Andy Green wrote:
> Mcguffey, David C wrote:
>
>>On 12 Oct 2005 I reported in a message (Subject: FC4 post-yum message
>>"Kernel panic -- not syncing: Attempted to k ill init!") that yum was
>>crashing my FC4 load to the point it wouldn't boot.
>>
>>Today, I finally tracked down the fact that when yum retrieves a kernel
>>update (2.6.11 to 2.6.13) for i686, the kernel won't survive a reboot. It
>>will continue to run after yum is finished, but a reboot causes the message
>>reported above.
>
>
> Can this be some kind of problem generating or using the kernel initrd?
> What can be seen on screen in the few lines before this error? Is
> there room in /boot?
You might also want to check that the grub configuration is correct; I
don't use grub (as yet), but I know from experience that if the initrd
file doesn't match up with the kernel, you'll have problems.
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