FC6 problem with different kernels

Mark Haney mhaney at ercbroadband.org
Thu Nov 9 16:19:00 UTC 2006


Thomas Widhalm wrote:
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> Hello list!
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> I have 1 problem on 2 FC6 boxes. One is a Pentium4, the other is an AMD
> Athlon XP. Both have the i586 Version of the kernel installed, but
> everytime I want to install a new kernel module (especially installing
> and updateing nvidia) it wants to install kernel.i686 . The install or
> update fails due to dependency failures. I can't install kernel.i686
> either. What should I do?
>
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This has been discussed a lot on here.  Anaconda screws up and installs 
the i586 kernel but tries to maintain the system as i686.  The only way 
to fix this is to manually install an i686 kernel.

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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
(828) 350-2415




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