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John Rowe wrote:
> I am trying to upgrade a three-year old athlon machine to SL4.2. What
> happens is:
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> * I do a fairly minimal install
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> * I "yum upgrade"
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> All is fine and the machine reboots OK.
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> I then install my 600-odd standard collection of RPMS, virtually all of
> which are from the SL CDs. Grub isn't one of these but I do change the
> kernel to kernel-smp just for an easy life (I have quite a few machines
> running SL4.2). Now if I reboot, grub goes through stage 1.5 then says:
>
I'm not sure if this is related, but how are you doing the install?
Just doing a rpm -Uvh, or yum, apt, or which program?
> GRUB loading, please wait...
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> That's it!
>
> Any thoughts? I'll probably try the non-smp kernel but it doesn't really
> look like a kernel problem as the kernel doesn't get loaded.
>
> Thanks
>
> John
No, I don't think changing the kernel make a difference.
What really does make a difference is if you change your grub.conf by
hand. Do you do that at any time? Or do any of the rpm's that you
install do that?
Troy
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