I have read so many posts complaining about fedora core 6 installing the wrong kernel at install. (This stops your ATI & Nvida and any other 3rd party drivers working)
The i586 seems to be the default, To change this just type in at cd/dvd boot linux i686 this will install the i686 kernel instead.
The option for installing i686 kernel is.( doesn't work always )
Orlinux i686
Originally Posted by bigjoe4265
Additional boot option's for hardware problems
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HOWTO CHECK & CHANGE THE KERNEL AFTER INSTALL
NOTECannot be relied on as it returns the wrong kernel arch.uname -a
1) To check kernel type.
a) quick test.
b) full test.Originally Posted by wmc1369
[leigh@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n"|grep kernel|sortrpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n"|grep kernel|sort
kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2239.fc6.i686
kernel-2.6.18-1.2239.fc6.i686
[leigh@localhost ~]$
There should be no kernel i568
2) first you need to download yum-utils
A)To get the current i686 kernel:su -c "yum install yum-utils"
You will need to update the kernel first as other packages have now changed , use the C2) command to swap kernel
B)yum update kernelIf the version of the kernel downloaded is larger than currently installed:*yumdownloader kernel.i686
C1)Alternatively, if the version of the kernel downloaded is the same as that currently installed:*su -c "rpm -ivh kernel-2*.i686.rpm"
C2)su -c "rpm -ivh --replacefiles --replacepkgs kernel-2*.i686.rpm"
Leigh