On Monday 20 October 2003 09:20 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-20 at 11:43, Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Monday 20 October 2003 10:29 am, Turgut Kalfaoglu wrote: > > > I am reinstalling 9.1 on my Thinkpad laptop; and I noticed the old > > > problem; that you cannot enable the IDE DMA with my setup; hdparms just > > > says operation not permitted or something. > > > > > > I was wondering what is the best way to upgrade to a newer kernel, say > > > 2.4.22 ? Does Mandrake use a patched the kernel, or is it 'plain > > > vanilla' as found at www.kernel.org? Can I just download the new one > > > from kernel.org, make xconfig, install, and let it rip? > > > > You could actually install the kernel from 9.2 alongside the 9.1 kernel. > > It is 2.4.22 with a bunch of Mandrake specific enhancements like > > supermount, etc. Just grab it (the kernel RPM) from one of the 9.2 > > mirrors. It will install alongside your 9.1 kernel so that you can > > select between them at boot. > > I have never updated the kernel with URPMI...do you still need to > configure LILO or are necessary changes done 'auto-magically'? > > Thanks. LILO will be configured for you to boot the new kernel, although you may want to make sure a LILO entry exists to boot the old kernel in case you end up with problems. -- /g
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