Mike Chambers wrote:
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 10:25 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
If your running a 32bit OS (most intel desktop/server systems are
64bit now) you get a i686 kernel if your system supports PAE and an
i586 kernel if your system doesn't. There was a large discussion about
this in fedora-devel.
Mine is a lower end HP system I guess, with max of 4G ram (currently
only using 2G). So I am assuming this isn't a PAE type system?
'grep pae /proc/cpuinfo' to know if your cpu supports pae.
Regardless, the new rules apply primarily to *new* installs, not
upgrades. If you had the old kernel.i686, the only sane upgrade path is
to kernel.i586, unless yum grew the smarts to know that you have PAE
support and/or a 64-bit capable cpu. Even then, people might have reason
to stick with kernel.i586 (their crappy out-of-tree driver doesn't work
w/either PAE or 64-bit), so we shouldn't be changing arches or packages
on them. So for upgrades, you'll have to move to kernel-PAE.i686 or
kernel.x86_64 manually at first, if you can/want to make that change.
--jarod
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