On Monday 31 Mar 2003 1:36 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 29 Mar 2003 2:48 am, flacycads wrote:
> > Correct. If you wanted to upgrade, you would use rpm -Uvh *.rpm. But if
> > it failed, you wouldn't still have your original working kernel to fall
> > back on. I would never use -U with a kernel rpm.
> >
> > Read the docs at muo, especially page 2. It's a little outdated (headers
> > are now in glibc, I believe), but still basic good info.
> >
> > http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/kupgrade.html
>
> OK - read everything, then tried the install, which failed:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel-2.4.21.0.13mdk]# urpmi kernel*
> To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed
> (180 MB):
> kernel-2.4.21.0.13mdk-1-1mdk.i586
> kernel-doc-2.4.21-0.13mdk.i586
> kernel-source-2.4.21-0.13mdk.i586
> libncurses5-devel-5.2-27mdk.i586
> Is this OK? (Y/n) y
> Please insert the medium named "Installation CD 2 (x86) (cdrom2)" on device
> [/dev/hda]
> Press Enter when ready...
> installing ./kernel-doc-2.4.21-0.13mdk.i586.rpm
> ./kernel-2.4.21.0.13mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> ./kernel-source-2.4.21-0.13mdk.i586.rpm
> /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libncurses5-devel-5.2-27mdk.i586.rpm
>
> Installation failed:
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) is needed by kernel-source-2.4.21-0.13mdk
>
> My 'Installation CD2' of course is for the wrong kernel version, so
> naturally it failed.
>
> Is it just the kernel sources package that has failed? Where do I get the
> missing file, please?
>
> Anne
While waiting, I worked it out that it had tried the sources install first. I
installed the docs, then the kernel. It ended with the message:
look like there was a problem, the default vmlinuz version is not the same
of the initrd
which mean you have a mdk kernel and not a mdk initrd you may go in trouble
[EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel-2.4.21.0.13mdk]#
I have checked /boot, and there are versions of vmlinuz and initrd for each
install, but one packaged called kernel.h-2.4.19-16 and no new matching one.
My lilo.conf now says
boot=/dev/hde
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
default=win4lin
keytable=/boot/uk.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=200
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-16mdk
label=Mandrake_9.0-2.
root=/dev/hdf1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img
append="nobiospnp nopentium mem=512M devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=failsafe
root=/dev/hdf1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe nopentium mem=512M devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi"
read-only
other=/dev/hde1
label=Windows98
table=/dev/hde
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe
image=/boot/win4lin
label=win4lin
root=/dev/hdf1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="nobiospnp nopentium mem=512M devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk
label=Mandrake9.0+2421-13
root=/dev/hdf1
read-only
optional
vga=normal
append=" nobiospnp nopentium mem=512M devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi"
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img
Everything looks reasonable to me. Have I really got a problem? I haven't
re-booted yet, in case there is something that I should sort out first.
Anne
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