Pascal Bleser schrieb:
Brendan McNally wrote:
Can you please tell me is it possible to upgrade from Kernel v 2.4 to 2.6without having to upgrade the entire OS?
No, usually it's not.
To be able to use a 2.6 kernel, the system needs specific minimum versions of userspace tools (such as modprobe, insmod, ...) as well as a GNU libc version that is capable of interfacing with that kernel.
You have to very carefully check the requirements of kernel 2.6
SUSE Linux 9.0 is able to work with at least older 2.6.x kernels, at least it worked for me back then. However, I would only try 2.6.x kernels up to the one found in SUSE 9.3 (and use the corresponding udev). That should work. As an alternative, you could try with udev from recent 10.1 snapshots with kernels from the same snapshot, but no guarantees for that. Either way, you should upgrade because even SUSE Linux 9.0 (the last one with kernel 2.4) is no longer supported with security updates. http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2005-Nov/0004.html I suggest you hop straight onto 10.0 right now to have a secure system. If you want, you can still change to 10.1 once it is out. SUSE Linux releases older than 10.0 are not recommended because they have a really different hotplugging architecture and they boot much slower than the current release. If the machine you're talking about is a server, you'd better run SLES on it to get a MUCH longer support period (and with SLES 9 you have a 2.6 kernel, so that would sort of solve your problem). Generally, an untested upgrade from 2.4 to 2.6 is nothing I'd do on any machine I depend on. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/