I did not perform a "backup" of the old kernel. I just installed all required packages (in the readme-file at Kraxel) and everything went fine :) How could I see if YAST have renamed the 2.6 installation so that it points/says that I'm still running 2.4 ... when I should be up-and-running with the 2.6-kernel ??? On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 19:19:20 +0100, Dan Svarreby <dan.svarreby@home.se> wrote:

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I have installed the 2.6 kernel. Now there's only the rest left

How do I configure the boot file so it will start on 2.6, and not 2.4?

... you actually WANT to save your 'good' bootable kernel. i hope you didnt install the kernel*.rpm, because it uses the default name and will OVERWRITE the kernel that already exists in /boot. (unless suse automagically named your newest kernel as vmlinuz-2.4.21-144-default anyway, on my 8.2 system, i renamed vmlinuz and initrd to reflec their 8.2 versioning and then installed the new 2.6 kernel rpm, so i [now] have: linux:/home/mtobler # ls -al /mnt/data3 ... initrd -> initrd-2.6.0-0-default ... initrd-82 ... initrd.shipped ... vmlinux-2.6.0-0-default.gz ... vmlinux.gz ... vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.0-0-default ... vmlinuz-2.6.0-0-default ... vmlinuz-82 and i used yast (boot loader config) to first 'clone' the orig 8.2 setting and then changed it to boot the 'initrd-82' and 'vmlinuz-82', so the resulting /boot/grub/menu.lst is: ... ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title SuSE 8.2 orig kernel (hd0,9)/vmlinuz-82 root=/dev/hda19 vga=0x31a splash=silent hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,9)/initrd-82 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title SuSE 8.2_Kernel 2.6 kernel (hd0,9)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda19 vga=0x31a splash=silent hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,9)/initrd on my 9.0 system, it was a similar set of steps, but in 9.0, the names are different (since suse automagically setup the kernel and initrd names to match the running kernel)