At 11:25 6/09/2003, you wrote: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 :-)
Well, i cant seem to find the SMP version. I looked on the redhat ftp mirrors, and the closest i found were:
kernel-2.4.18-14.src.rpm
kernel-source-2.4.18-14.i386.rpm
kernel-smp-2.4.18-14.i686.rpm
kernel-BOOT-2.4.18-14.i386.rpm
kernel-2.4.18-14.i586.rpm
I'm guessing anything other then i386 isnt going to work, but i didnt see an i386 smp version.
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 wasnt an smp version. This is whats installed now: kernel-2.4.20-20.8 kernel-source-2.4.20-20.8 kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-9
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.
-- Steve.
Nope, those two files are gone, i assume replaced when i upgraded. I was assuming lilo would update itself when i rebooted. I just dont want to reboot until i can get the old kernel back, and get the smp version of the new kernel. I've looked on the redhat update ftp site and i did not see any smp version of the kernel. Although there is an smp version for i586 and i686. Maybe i'm getting a little screwed up with my cpu architecture. Are xeon cpu's i686? because thats what in the machine, 2 xeon cpu's.
Ian
-- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
