Don’t Use Yum To Update To Fedora 7!
The update from one Fedora version to the next by yum was never officially supported - however, given that you were brave enough it could work out. However, for the next Fedora version you shouldn’t try it because you might even make your system unbootable!
Dave Jones posted that the new kernel’s driver system for hard disks can cause serious problems if you make a normal yum update from an old kernel to a new kernel. There are actually two reasons which, combined, cause that danger.
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re: Don't use Yum
I could never get a clean update (i.e. stable) running either YUM or INSTALL-UPDATE with Fedora.
Always ended up doing a fresh install (saving the /home, /opt partitions).
Being the never ending optimist (insert laughter here) I've tried the quick and easy update method almost every version change and got burnt EVERY time.