Thanks to the info on this list, I am going to try moving from the 2.2.19 kernel to 2.4.16. What do I need to install from the FTP and not install so I can fall back to the older kernels if need be? IIRC, newer ReiserFS versions are not backwards compatible, so I plan on not installing the version in the 2.4.16 directory. Is this correct? TIA, Jeffrey
Download the RPM. run rpm. Then go to /usr/src/linux-2.4.16.SuSE Then menuconfig, then make bzImage, then make modules, then make install, then make modules_install. Finally cp /arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz_2416 Then go to Yast and configure LILO : add Linux_2.4.16 with optionnal boot file : /boot/vmlinuz_2416 (instead of vmlinuz). This way, upon boot, You'll have the choice of starting whether one or other kernel. On my machine I can, that way, run 4 different kernels : 2.2.18, 2.4.0, 2.4.16 and 2.4.17 I tried 2.5.3 but as mentionned somewhere on this list, the impair kernels are really for developper (Iam not) and it is even impossible to compile with reasonnable options set on. Anyway, You might expect, according to the options You want to set up in Your kernel, some difficulties in make bzImage and make install, even with 2.4.16 If You get error messages under make bzImage You'll have to restart make menuconfig and check the options. Some conflict with the kernel or with other options. Rgds Jacek
Jacek BOBOLI wrote:
Download the RPM. run rpm. Then go to /usr/src/linux-2.4.16.SuSE Then menuconfig, then make bzImage, then make modules, then make install, then make modules_install.
Why compile the kernel if you're installing a modular one via RPM? Then what's the point of using an RPM? Just install the kernel RPM, make sure there's an entry for it in /etc/lilo.conf, then run mk_initrd and lilo and you're good to go. -- ======================================================= Glenn Holmer (gholmer@ameritech.net) ------------------------------------------------------- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. (In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.) ------------------------------------------------------- -H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", 1926 =======================================================
If Y're happy with the SuSE options, for example, Yu don't have to configure it for ADSL modems, download the compiled rpm instead of the source one. First copy vmlinuz to vmlinuz_xx where xx is the number of Yr actual version. run rpm, the SuSEconfig, go to Yast, system administration, configure LILO and add an entry for Yr xx former kernel. optionnal boot will be /boot/vmlinuz_xx. So at boot Y ll have the option to start whether Yr new kernel under vmlinuz, whether Yr former one under vmlinuz_xx
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Glenn Holmer
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Jacek BOBOLI
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Jeffrey Taylor