On 04/25/2013 02:38 PM, Richard Vickery issued this missive:

On Apr 25, 2013 2:22 PM, "Rick Stevens" <ri...@alldigital.com
<mailto:ri...@alldigital.com>> wrote:
 >
 > On 04/25/2013 02:04 PM, Richard Vickery issued this missive:
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >>
 >> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Rick Stevens <ri...@alldigital.com
<mailto:ri...@alldigital.com>
 >> <mailto:ri...@alldigital.com <mailto:ri...@alldigital.com>>> wrote:
 >>
 >>
 >>         Because I, like many other general, non-tech users out here
on the
 >>         internet who don't understand the lists, am ignorant. This
is why I
 >>         continue asking on the wrong list. If you want to be more
 >>         helpful, it
 >>         might be possible to take this question and post it to the
 >>         correct list.
 >>
 >>
 >>     The correct list for pre-release variants of Fedora (e.g. F19) is
 >>     "t...@lists.fedoraproject.org
<mailto:t...@lists.fedoraproject.org>
<mailto:t...@lists.fedoraproject.org <mailto:t...@lists.fedoraproject.org>>"
 >>
 >>     (a.k.a. "The Fedora Test List"). You have
 >>     to join that list in the same manner as you joined this list.
 >>
 >>     All discussions about pre-released software (e.g. "F19", "rawhide",
 >>     even updates of code for existing releases) occur on that list. Once
 >>     F19 (or an updated RPM for an existing package) is released, then
 >>     discussions regarding that released code shift over to THIS list.
 >>
 >>     In answer to your other question, grub2 is the default boot for
F19 and
 >>     grub2 looks a lot different than grub did. The fedup operation makes
 >>     your system F19 and hence you aren't offered the old grub stuff.
Also,
 >>     being on F19 prevents us from answering a lot of your questions
since
 >>     most people on this list don't use F19 (yet).
 >>
 >>     I belong to both lists (test and users). I have an F19 machine for
 >>     experimental purposes, but I'm not a seasoned F19 user. Some other
 >>     members of this list are also members of test, but the reverse is
 >>     certainly NOT true (most test members never even look at this list).
 >>
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 >>     - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital
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 >>
 >>
 >> Thank you! An answer I can reply happily with / to, rather than thinking
 >> that, unlike what the website says, this group is not so helpful.
 >>
 >> If I am on the alpha program, why am I on 3.7x rather than 3.8x?
 >
 >
 > Ok, that's one we can probably handle. You can run newer systems on
 > older kernels (many people do). It's not recommended but sometimes
 > necessary if, for example, you have older hardware that newer kernels
 > have orphaned for some reason.
 >
 > The odds are that you have an option in your yum configuration that
 > blocks upgrades in kernels (although I'd expect fedup to bypass that
 > somehow). Look in your various /etc/yum* files and see if you have an
 > "exclude=kernel*" thing in there.  Quick check (as root):
 >
 >         # cd /etc
 >         # grep -R exclude yum*
 >
 > Look for "exclude=" lines that aren't commented

I don't get anything.

Hmmm, that's interesting. If you try to update your kernel specifically
in a trial, what sort of messages do you get? You can try (as root):

        # yum update kernel*

and see if you get any indications that something's being blocked.
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