Bug 114732
| Summary: | 2.6.1 Uninstalls all 2.4 Kernels | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Justin Churchey <sajchurchey> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 1 | ||
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| Hardware: | athlon | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-06-19 15:37:46 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Did you run rpm -F or rpm -U rather than rpm -i? I have updated lots of times to 2.6 kernels including to kernel-2.6.1-1.65 without problems. I usually run rpm -U although I may have run rpm -i. I'll have to download a new rawhide kernel to check. I guess the main question here is, does RH and FC remove old 2.4 kernels because of the system modifications needed to ensure that the old 2.4 kernels will run on the system because of all of the 2.6 overhauls (i.e. alsa,/proc,etc.) *never* use -U for installing new kernels. There shouldn't be anything that will cause 2.4 kernels to be removed. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: When I installed the 2.6.1 kernel (rawhide)? I did not change my grub.conf file (my GRUB setup requires me to manually edit) so when I tried to boot, it could not find the 2.4 kernel images that I had installed. It is obvious after doing a "rpm -q" that it had uninstalled all 2.4 versions of the kernel that would have otherwise been there. I feel this limits functionality of the distribution by not giving consumers a choice in using 2.4 in productivity situations and 2.6 for testing, since some people might feel that 2.6 is not stable enough to be used all of the time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-smp-2.6.1-1.65 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install Rawhide version of 2.6.1 Kernel 2. 3. Actual Results: It appears that the 2.6 series eliminates all 2.4 kernels. Expected Results: It should adjust for compatability. Additional info: