On Monday 06 January 2003 13:12 pm, Harry Wert wrote:
Yes, if you are using LILO, No if you are using GRUB
On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 12:51, Franklin Maurer wrote:
On Monday 06 January 2003 12:28 pm, Jonathan Nichols wrote:
All you really need to do is rpm -Uvh k_athlon.bla.bla.rpm and reboot the machine (after downloading the new kernel, of course)
Don't you need to run mkinitrd, after upgrading / installing the kernel? I thought that without it you'd get a kernel panic upon rebooting. I'm just checking my newbie knowledge, but i thought i had learned this key point through others mistakes.
Maybe it's because i upgreded the kernel through apt-get.
Okay, so to keep it all nice and simple, I download the k_athlon rpm, click on it in konqueror and kpackage pops up and I install it. Once it's installed, bring up a konsole, do mkinitrd *and* lilo, then reboot. Is this right? One more question about this...will I still have all my same old files and all that stuff? Settings, etc., in kde? Can I then on the first bootup after the install of the new kernel, log in as root and open Control Center->System->Kernel configurator and do any tweaking there? And if I 'can', do I need to do mkinitrd and lilo again before rebooting? Thanks for all this info and help, John