Re: VMware server cannot run on FC6

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On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 10:32 +0100, Andy Green wrote: 
> rpm -q --queryformat "%{name}-%{arch}\n" kernel
> 
> What we did was to download the i686 kernel and kernel-devel from an 
> http mirror, then
> 
> rpm -e --nodeps kernel kernel-devel
> 
> (don't worry about the grubby warning)  then added back in the i686 
> stuff we just downloaded
> 
> rpm -i kernel*.rpm
> 
> On reboot, the previously compiled module "just worked" without a 
> recompile, now it had an i686 arch kernel to get into.
> 
> -Andy


FWIW: I ran into this same problem on my computer.  Following this same
procedure did, in fact, get the kernel installed, but it never updated
grub.conf.  It removed the old entry, but didn't add the new one.
Luckily, I'd been watching this thread and made sure it was set before I
rebooted...


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