Re: ATrpms Status Update?

On Thu 28/06/2012 9:48 PM, Brian Long wrote:
> Paul, you should never upgrade (rpm -U) the kernel.  Should you always install (rpm -i)
> it.  Yum knows this and it should have installed the updated kernel alongside the
> currently-running one.  This allows you to fall back to a known-working kernel should your
> update fail.
>
> Are you sure the old kernel is gone?  You should be able to edit grub.conf and tell it to
> boot the previous kernel where the nvidia kmod still exists.
>
> rpm -q kernel should list two or three kernels on a default Fedora install (once you've
> performed updates a few times).
>
> /Brian/
>
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 2:27 AM, Paul Wilson <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
>     Yes there must be a way to prevent loading new Nvidia versions if kmdl is not present,
>     Yesterday I attempted to upgrade a friends Fedora but found after the upgrade the kmod
>     is not available for this kernel so I'm stuck as its an upgrade I can't fallback to
>     old kernel.
>
>     In the end I had to disable the nvidia graphics and use the novena drivers , not ideal
>     but I had no other choice.
>
>     So can the kmdl yum script check if available and force a error or perhaps if there is
>     some other script I can check kmdl BEFORE I upgrade kernel.
>
>     thanks
>     Paul
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Bob,
  thanks but I didn't make it clear I was upgrading from F13 to F15 so I couldn't really 
go back to the old Kernel.

Paul