Bob Proulx wrote: > Grant Grundler wrote: > > Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Please CC me as I am not subscribed. The Mail-Follow-To: should be > > > set to both the list and myself. > > > Good catch. You _can_ run a 64-bit kernel on C240 but should NOT generally. > > Okay. Will load the kernel-image-2.6.8-2-32 package. > > Upon further reading of the release notes I see the following: > > On 64bit HPPA machines you will need to upgrade to a newer kernel > version first before upgrading the system. > > I had originally read that to say that I must upgrade the kernel > before upgrading to Sarge because of course the hardware is a 64-bit > cpu. But now I see that I guess I only need to upgrade the kernel > first if I am already running a 64-bit kernel. If I am running the > 2.4.17-32 kernel then I guess I don't need to upgrade the kernel > first. Okay. However really my goal is to upgrade the kernel because > I believe I would see a significant performance boost. And I am most > of the way there so I might as well continue.
No, that's a misconception. You need to upgrade the kernel because Sarge's glibc needs a newer (than 2.4.17) kernel to work. If you don't upgrade your kernel first, you'll end up with a broken system. HTH -- Thibaut VARENE http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/
