34.1 is the latest stable, released kernel. You'll find much later
kernels on the cooker, but these are still classified as test versions
and are not recommended unless you either know a lot about what you are
doing, or are happy to potentially have to deal with "interesting"
problems, or both!
Needless to say - I am running 34.1. That said, the cooker versions
certainly work, so if you want to walk on the wild side....
BTW, in case you haven't upgraded before, please make sure you manually
download the kernel and use rpm -ivh kernel... to install it. Don't use
MandrakeUpdate , or rpm -U. See the achive for LOTS more on this if you
need convincing.
I just installed 34.1 on another machine this morning and found the same
behaviour as I mentioned in a previous post:
---------------snip---------------
Just installed the security update for the kernel. After rpm -ivh
kernel.... I noted that lilo.conf (excluding the menu stuff at top) now
looked like:
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=" devfs=mount quiet"
vga=791
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.8-34.1mdk
label=248-341
root=/dev/hda5
read-only
optional
vga=normal
append=" devfs=mount quiet"
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.8-34.1mdk.img
A check of /boot reveals that initrd.img is linked to
initrd-2.4.8-34.1mdk.img
So, my lilo allows me to boot either the new kernel by choosing 248-341,
or the new kernel by choosing linux. That doesn't seem like a very
failsafe option, so I added:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.8-26mdk
label=old-linux
root=/dev/hda5
read-only
optional
vga=normal
append=" devfs=mount quiet"
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.8-26mdk.img
and ran lilo before attempting a reboot. The new kernel seems fine, so
there was no need, but it still leaves the question of why the install
behaves that way. Anyone care to comment?
------------snip--------------
so check that before rebooting too!
Brian
On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 10:39, Gerald Waugh wrote:
>
> Current kernel 2.4.8-26mdk
> I looked around the LM site and could only find
> 8.1/RPMS/kernel-2.4.8-34.1mdk.i586.rpm
>
> I thought I seen on this list 2.4.10
>
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