On Sat, 10 Dec 2005, seth vidal wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 17:04 +0100, saveline@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I recently had a problem with a kernel install. I used yum and it >> install a new kernel (2.4.21-37.EL), but it installed this kernel for >> x86_64 (in fact my box is an ia32e), so I got a kernel panic :-) . >> I saw there was a kernel specially for ia32e and it works fine. So I >> made the Garrick Staples update on my archwork.py in order to have ia32e >> listed in available packages with yum. >> My question is : If yum has for the same package the choice between an >> x86_64 arch and a ia32e arch does it will choose ia32e by default for an >> install or an update ? > > 1. I didn't know of any distros that were shipping an ia32e kernel. > Curious RHEL 3 has separate x86_64 and ia32e kernels... - Panu -
