> Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 14:09:54 -0600 > From: Randy Clarksean <rclark at lakesplus.com> > I may be just a bit befuddled here ... but ... I am trying to upgrade my > kernel on a Fedora Core 5 system. > > I tried using YUM and it did not fly all that well. There was an error > message while trying to install the kernel ... some error related to > grub ... searched the web, but no luck. Hmm. More information might be useful. I'm running FC5 on one box. > so ... I run rpm -qa | grep kernel and I get > > [rclark at dualasus ~]$ rpm -qa | grep kernel > kernel-smp-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 > kernel-smp-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5 I see you've got the kernel package installed. Odd. I get this: [root at tick ~]# rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5 kernel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 kernel-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5 [root at tick ~]# uname -r 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 Grub has entries for those two kernels. (Hmm. I must not have rebooted after the last kernel update.) Here's my grub entry for that kernel: title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2257.fc5) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5 ro root=LABEL=/1 initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2257.fc5.img I did nothing special to any repository or yum configuration. It just works. "yum update" updates the kernel just like everything else. > The 2.16.15 version is what I have now. But ... the grub.conf shows > nothing related to 2.6.18 ... which I would like to try and install. I > tried going out to download the SRC and work at it from that way ... but > none of the repositories go past the 2.6.15-1.2054. > > How does the 2.6.18-1 show up ... how do i install it properly ... and > why does it not show up out on the repositories? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Randy Try yum update. If that doesn't work, try "yum clean all" then "yum update". Send us the output if the update fails. Chris