I recently downloaded the updated kernel rpm and instead of doing rpm -i, i did rpm -U and replaced the existing kernel. I havent rebooted the machine yet so its still running the old kernel.
i have 2 questions:
1. is there some way i can get the old kernel back? I'm a little worried about rebooting in case the new kernel doesnt work for some reason.
You should be able to re-download your old kernel and just rpm -ivh <file>
don't forget to get the SMP one :-)
2. the machine is a dual proc machine. But when i looked in /boot/ i did not see any smp .img file. Shouldnt there be one? There used to be one since lilo.conf has this:
Depends what the name of the file was that you did the rpm -U in the above scenario.
It sounds like you manually downloaded and installed an rpm - you will need to check that you did infact install the kernel file that had "smp" in its name, otherwise you will end up with a quite usable, but single CPU only kernel.
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14smp
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14smp.img
read-only
append="root=LABEL=/"
If you have no /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14smp and no /boot/initrd-2.4.18-14smp.img then that entry (not necessarily all entries) in the boot menu will fail to work.
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Steve.
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