On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Reg Clemens <r...@dwf.com> wrote: > This is on a Fedora 12 i386 system (new install from DVD). On doing > online > > update (though PackageKit module) and selecting all updates (about 850 > MB) , > > on rebooting, I find that I cannot boot into the new kernel. Though the > new > > kernel with images are there in /etc/boot it still boots into the old > > kernel: > > > > New - 2.6.31.9-174.fc12 > > Old - 2.6.31.5-174.fc12 > > > > I had selected all packages (green, orange, red) from the Update Applet > > window. > > > > The contents of the /boot dir are as in this image: > > http://www.imagebam.com/image/a17ab164358024 > > > > Any suggestions on how to proceed. or anybody else with a similar problem > w/ > > a wrokaround ? > > > Well, I had a similar problem with F11. > I was doing full installs on 3 separate machines (Im working on a 4th at > the > moment) > in both 32 and 64bit mode. > > I was able to do the install, but the following boot would fail. > Using the Rescue option on the DVD I was able to boot the system, so it > really > seemed > that > (1) the boot block being written was bad > (2) the driver was writing a bad boot block. > > I fought this for almost a week, and have no idea what finally solved the > problem. > I tried rewriting the boot block by doing an install of an earlier Fedora > in > an unused > partition, and a number of other things... Something finally worked. But > I > fear > my next upgrade. > > I posted my problem previously to this list, and didnt get any useful > responses, > Im glad at least to see someone else with a similar problem. > > Is it possible that Fedora/64 writes a bad boot block? > That it is having problems with some DVD players? > > -- > Reg.Clemens > r...@dwf.com
Thanks all, for your suggestions. Finally, I had to re-install Fedora 12 from the DVD (as rescue mode chroot /mnt/sysimag did not help and re-installing GRUB to / bootsector did not work). However, this time I did the updates through cmd-line (tty) as # yum -update -y --skip-broken ... (/ after first updating yum and PackageKit /) Two packages could not be installed due to depsolve problems (mesa-dri-drivers-i686-0:7.7-2.fc12 and mesa-libGL.i686), but that does not seem to have made any difference. Now, can boot into the new kernel (2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686.PAE). Though, I have no idea why it updated to the PAE kernel (*maybe because the earlier kernel (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE) was also -PAE*). This desktop PC has only 2 GB of RAM and Ubuntu 9.04 has a non PAE kernel (2.6.28-17-generic) Jay -- Linux User 483705 @ http://counter.li.org/ (Linux Counter)
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