Bug 888234 - Fedora 18 starts with wrong kernel
Summary: Fedora 18 starts with wrong kernel
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 18
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-12-18 10:56 UTC by Matthieu Pupat
Modified: 2012-12-18 16:50 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
: 905298 (view as bug list)
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Last Closed: 2012-12-18 15:56:59 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Matthieu Pupat 2012-12-18 10:56:23 UTC 
On my machine I have fedora 17 and fedora 18 BETA installed.

Kernels installed on /boot are 

vmlinuz-3.6.6-3.fc18.x86_64
vmlinuz-3.6.9-2.fc17.x86_64

After installing fedora 18 BETA  system is booted using F18 root partition but fedora 17 kernel (vmlinuz-3.6.9-2.fc17.x86_64)
Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2012-12-18 15:24:43 UTC 
This is likely due to the higher version number of the F17 kernel screwing up the bootloader setup scripts.
Comment 2 Josh Boyer 2012-12-18 15:56:59 UTC 
Yeah, we can't fix this for beta.  Fortunately, booting with the F17 shouldn't be a problem unless you're trying to do secure boot.  If you do a yum update in the F18 partition, it should get a newer kernel than F17.

We're trying to keep the upgrade paths in mind for final release.
Comment 3 Matthieu Pupat 2012-12-18 16:50:44 UTC 
It did boot but I had access to pretty much nothing since the libs were not present (no network for instance). I just modified grub.cfg by hand and could get everything to work and then yum update.
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