What happens if you boot an older kernel and then try the upgrade to F24?

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Andras Simon <sza...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2016-11-23 19:38 GMT+01:00, Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org>:
> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 07:12:42PM +0100, Andras Simon wrote:
> >> I'm trying to upgrade to F24 from F23.
> >> # dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=24
> >> Last metadata expiration check: 0:10:02 ago on Wed Nov 23 18:52:12 2016.
> >> Error: cannot install both kernel-PAE-4.5.5-300.fc24.i686 and
> >> kernel-PAE-4.7.10-100.fc23.i686
> >> (try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting
> >> packages)
> >> kernel-PAE-4.7.10-100.fc23.i686 is actually the one that's running
> >> (and in fact the only one).
> >
> > Something is odd, here — DNF system upgrade should look at the updates
> > repos, not just the base repo. The problem here is that it seems to not
> > be in your case, as kernel-PAE-4.5.5-300.fc24.i686 is the version in
> > the base repo but updates have kernel-PAE-4.8.8-200.fc24.i686.
>
> Then that's another oddity besides it wanting to mess with an F23 kernel.
>
> > That said, I'd suggest going straight to Fedora 25 at this point,
> > without bothering to do F24 as an intermediary step. Even if it only
> > looks at the base repo, that should get you to
> > kernel-4.8.6-300.fc25.i686, which is higher.
>
> I tried this, but it still wants to remove my working kernel, so if
> somethig goes wrong during the upgrade, I lose F23.
>
> Andras
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