On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 19:17, Steve Kowalik wrote: > At 3:41 pm, Tuesday, September 2 2003, Bruce Badger mumbled: > > So, would some kind soul please tell me: ... > > o Why I got the bonus SMP kernel? > > I'd need to see the output of apt-get to determine that.
OK :-) wally:~# apt-get -d install kernel-image-2.4.21-4.686 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: kernel-image-2.4.21-4-686 kernel-image-2.4.21-4-686-smp The following NEW packages will be installed: kernel-image-2.4.21-4-686 kernel-image-2.4.21-4-686-smp 0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 22.3MB of archives. After unpacking 60.9MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Get:1 ftp://ftp.iinet.net sarge/main kernel-image-2.4.21-4-686 2.4.21-4 [11.0MB]Get:2 ftp://ftp.iinet.net sarge/main kernel-image-2.4.21-4-686-smp 2.4.21-4 [11.3MB] Fetched 22.3MB in 14m11s (26.2kB/s) Download complete and in download only mode > > o Will the bonus SMP kernel be installed too? > > You said to apt-get to only download. Therefore, I'm to assume you're going > to use dpkg -i to install it, in which case, no. Well, I plan to use apt-get install without the -d this time. Will that work OK? > > o If apt-get install will Do The Right Thing to make the non-SMP kernel > > bootable? > > > Keep in mind if either or both kernels are installed, your machine will > remain bootable. SMP or non-SMP it will still boot. An SMP kernel is not > dependant on having more than one CPU. > That doesn't answer your question, however. If you use lilo, yes, installing > the .deb will do the Right Thing. Great, thanks. In trying to understand why I got the bonus SMP kernel (above) I used apt-get -d install to get kernel-image-2.4.20.3.686. This one came down *without* a bonus SMP package. Then, when running the apt-get install again (to really install it) I got this: You are attempting to install an initrd kernel image (version 2.4.20-3-686) This will not work unless you have configured your boot loader to use initrd. (An initrd image is a kernel image that expects to use an INITial Ram Disk to mount a minimal root file system into RAM and use that for booting). This reads like "back off unless you know what you are doing!". But is it really saying "do remember to update lilo.conf, old bean"? Or is it saying something else altogether? Many thanks, Bruce
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