FC2 > FC3 bad kernel woes

[Shannon Scott]

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Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 5:36 AM
To: Linux tips and tricks
Subject: Re: FC2 > FC3 bad kernel woes

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, 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
>
> 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,

-Whose newest kernel source from where?  Which version?

I used this file:
kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.src.rpm

downloaded from :
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/SRPMS/

> 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.
> What can I try next?

-Prolly have to ask on LKML, since this is a kernel bug.

Thank you. I will try that also.
Shannon



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