On Tuesday 14 July 2009 11:50:06 Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 09:27:08AM -0600, Douglas McClendon wrote: > > As with a current LiveOS installation, the installation media kernel is > > the running kernel. Even if the f11 installer already allows you to > > trigger a chrooted yum update as part of the install, you won't be > > running the updated kernel until after a reboot. > > Is it the case that the installation kernel is always UP, > whereas the real kernel would probably be SMP nowadays? On everything but ppc32, we don't even ship an UP kernel any longer, the base kernel used by the installer *is* an SMP kernel. > > ... Same as RebootlessInstaller ... until ksplice ... > > I don't think ksplice changes things -- it seems to only work for very > minor kernel patches. For example, any change to the layout of a > kernel structure would appear to be incompatible with ksplice. Thus > it seems highly unlikely it'll ever work in its current form for > arbitrary kernel revisions. Trying to ksplice from 2.6.29.4 in the installer to say 2.6.30.1 or even to 2.6.31 does sound like massive fail... -- Jarod Wilson jarod@xxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
