What is the "right" way to upgrade the kernel in an openSUSE release? I don't mean to update within a version - eg 2.6.18 for 10.2 - I mean to go up to the next version - eg 2.6.18 to 2.6.25.
I don't know what the "right" way is, but I've just updated the kernel on my 10.3 install. I downloaded the latest 2.6 kernel (2.6.24.3), unpacked, made oldconfig and installed it. I did have a small problem as the kernel settings had debugging enabled, which created a huge initrd. I switched those off, and that was more or less it. Ok, apparmor isn't working, but I'm sure there's a suitable SUSE patch for that.
We completely reinstalled the OS on this hardware. The bug in the 10.3 kernel was fixed, and using the kISO KOTD, we were able to boot the 10.3 installer and get things going. From there was moved from the 2.6.22 default kernel to a 2.6.23 pae kernel out of the repositories. It was easy... as it should be. So with 10.2 out of the system, and 10.3 successfully installed, all the niggly little kernel related issues seem to have been resolved... C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org