Manny, Good one. Is this the perpetual beta Fedora?
The indicating factor for me to check if the Linux kernel is 32/64bit is via uname -a. There is cat /proc/version, but i usually just run uname. If anyone has an alternative, let me know. If it's centOS/RHEL, that would be alarming. -- regards, Andre | http://www.varon.ca On 11/21/07, Manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yehey!!! It now works! > > I just want to share this so people won't make my mistakes. > > It turns out that the reason the other installed kernels wouldn't boot is > that they weren't x86_64 kernels (I think). For some reason, YUM kept > fetching and installing the 32-bit ones (1386 or 1686). > > I couldn't manually install the x86_64 kernels at first. I kept getting an > error message that the kerbnel I was trying to install was for the x86_64 > architecture. The problem was that my computer *WAS* an x86_64! > > After a lot of useless poking around, I found an RPM option to ignore the > architecture. So the command I used was: > > # rpm -ivh --force --ignorearch <kernel_package.x86_64.rpm> > > This worked and installed the x86_64 kernel. It boots now. > > I can't undertsand why YUM can't seem to select the right x86_64 packages. > Maybe I have some variable that I have to set somewhere so that it knows > my hardware is x86_64. > > Of course, recompiling would have been more fun. But I'll save that > adventure for another time. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
