On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Fox <[email protected]> wrote: > kevin wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Peter Robinson <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Kevin Gordon <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > Hi folks: > > > > > > > > There is a new kernel displayed for the XO1 when a yum update is > done on > > > a > > > > vanilla 883 machine. > > > > > > > > Being adventurous, I did the yum update kernel separately, then did > the > > > cp - > > > > ..... instruction from the readme. > > > > > > > > uname -a shows the new kernel is running. > > > > > > > > However, it looks to me that the old kernel files remain in /boot > and the > > > > .../current ... directories. Some with '111005' in their name would > > > appear > > > > to me to be the old ones and the new ones would be those with > '111026' in > > > > their name > > > > > > > > Is there any appreciable advantage to manually removing the old > files, or > > > > conversely is there any disadvantage? > > > > > > You should follow the procedure here > > > > > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kernel#Installing_kernel_RPMs > > > > > > > > > I thought I did :-( > > yes, your new kernel is running. you're done. :-) > > > > > I'm just installing onto a jffs2 XO-1, no building, just an install, so > I > > did the basics: an install then the copy. Did I miss something in the > > install that left the old files around? The instructions didn't seem to > > specify an install command, so I used yum update kernel. Should I try > an > > rpm command instead? > > probably no one has ever added the 'remove the old kernel manually' step > since removing kernels can be fraught with peril, and hey, it's only disk > space. > > go ahead and remove the old files, if you're confident. >
"fraught with peril" - sounds like good clean fun :-) But, seriously, with all the extra space on 883 without the DRI stuff, it may be more trouble than it's worth. Thanks for the quick responses, gents. KG > > paul > > > > > Thanks > > > > KG > > > > > > > > > > Peter > > > > > part 2 text/plain 129 > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > =--------------------- > paul fox, [email protected] >
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