FC2 > FC3 bad kernel woes

[Tim Wunder]

On 12/3/2004 8:30 AM, I believe that Shannon Scott wrote:

> 
> 
> Happy Holidays.
> 
> I recently tried to upgrade Fedora Core 2 to Fedora Core 3. 
> 
> It turns out the FC3 cd?s I burned had kernel-2.6.9-1.678_FC3 with these 
> related bugs:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139786
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139691
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=139674
> 

I'm confused. These bugs should only affect FC3 users who do an update of 
their kernel after they've installed FC3. FC3's kernel as provided on the 
downloaded installation ISO's should work, and should not be (AFAIK) 
kernel-2.6.9-1.678_FC3. At least that's how I'm reading these bug reports...

Are you sure you're experiencing this same problem?

>  
> 
> If you go here:
> 
> http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=27264
> 
> You will see that the suggested fix is to reboot, and use the grub menu 
> to select an older kernel.  I don?t think this is an option for me 
> because I was upgrading from FC2.  I only found the single FC3 kernel in 
> the /boot directory after booting with the rescue disk.
> 
> So I downloaded the newest kernel rpm (kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3),  booted 
> to the rescue disk, performed the ?chroot /mnt/sysimage?, and installed 
> the kernel rpm.  The system still wouldn?t boot.
> 
> So I downloaded the newest kernel source, booted to the rescue disk, 
> performed the ?chroot /mnt/sysimage?, and compiled it using these 
> instructions:
> 
> http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-26572.html  ( 
> second post ? using ?make oldconfig?).
> 
> That won?t boot either.
> 

This may be a stupid question, but...
What steps did you take for the "You can then proceed as usual" part of the 
instructions?

It seems to me that if you're compiling the kernel source from the original 
configuration, you'll have the same problems as you'd get from installing 
the pre-compiled RPM for the kernel. I'd think you'd need to change 
something about your kernel configuration in order to avoid the problem.

> What can I try next? 

Can you provide some information about your system and any specific error 
message you might be getting when the boot fails?

Regards,
Tim