On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 09:23:21PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > On Sunday 22 May 2005 20:56, Bill Allombert wrote: > > The upgrade reports show that users tend to upgrade the kernel from 2.4 > > to 2.6 at the same time they upgrade to sarge, so it could be > > worthwhile to include a note to help them: > > Hmm. I wonder if it wouldn't be better to advise against doing that. > Maybe we should advise users to upgrade to a Sarge 2.4 kernel first, > verify that their system is stable and important application function as > expected and then upgrade to a 2.6 kernel later. > That would improve to chances to troubleshoot any problems from the kernel > upgrade and eliminate distribution upgrade problems as possible cause.
Sure. > > If you are upgrading from a 2.4 to a 2.6 kernel, before rebooting: > > > > 1) You must install modules-init-tools. > > Why? AFAIK module-init-tools is pulled in automatically because of > dependencies. (Except if users compile their own kernel from 2.6 > kernel-source packages.) Exactly so. Some users compile their own 2.6 kernel from kernel.org source. > > 2) If you have an LVM1 partition, you must install the 'lvm2' package. > > Do you have further information on this? There are two version of LVM: 1) LVM1 (lvm10 in woody/sarge) work only with linux-2.4. 2) LVM2 (lvm2, only in sarge) work with both linux-2.4 and 2.6, and is backward compatible with LVM1. So if you upgrade your kernel to 2.6, you need to switch to lvm2. I don't know more detail, though. > - Be aware of changes in input layer which may require reconfiguration of > keyboard (both for console and X) and mouse (for X). This is section 5.2 Keyboard issues on upgrades to a 2.6 kernel. If a new section is created this one should be moved. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
