Re: [GTALUG] war story: fixing a Fedora installation that got broken during update

From: Dhaval Giani via talk <talk@gtalug.org>

This doesn't make sense. The kernel is the only package you can install multiples of. It will never only have one kernel "rpm" installed. Even if it failed to install part of it - you should have been able to boot to an older kernel. Did you try that?

Yes. Same failure mode. And console mode worked, so the kernel was pretty functional. So: still a mystery.