Hi John! On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, John Andersen wrote:
I just happened to do a yast online update earlier today and I noticed that the machine (SuSE 8.1 pro) dowloaded and installed a kernel (2.4.21-189) and while downloading it, it said it was an athlon package. (Its a dual Pentium II mobo.)
I thought the Athlon notation thingie was fixed??
The actual file downloaded was -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22614744 Feb 18 12:24 k_psmp-2.4.21-189.i586.rpm
Yet it specifically mentioned athlon while it was downloading it.
Should I be afraid to reboot that server?
Always be afraid :-) Do rpm --verify -vv k_psmp and rpm -qi k_psmp check the output of both is what you expect. If it is, check that lilo/grub points to the new kernel and a tested kernel, and be less afraid.