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Re: 2.0.26 Kernel upgrade
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (K. Harrison Liang)
Tue Nov 26 14:30:42 1996
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 14:01:40 -0500
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From: "K. Harrison Liang" <HarrisonL@psu.edu>
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I had the same problem but with help from many, here's the solution:
>Date: Tue, 26 Nov 96 08:59 PST
>X-PH: V4.1@r02n07
>To: K Harrison Liang <HarrisonL@psu.edu>
>Subject: incorrect kernel version
>References: <2.2.32.19961125003154.0069520c@email.psu.edu>
>From: Kayvan Sylvan <kayvan@sylvan.com>
>
>>>>>> "KHL" == K Harrison Liang <HarrisonL@psu.edu> writes:
>
>KHL> I downloaded and re-compiled the latest 2.0.26 kernel under
>KHL> RH/Intel 4.0. But when I start up Redhat Linux, it still says
>KHL> "2.0.18" kernel. I'm pretty sure I compiled the 2.0.26 kernel
>KHL> since I removed the 2.0.18 directory completely before compiling
>KHL> the new kernel. Does anyone know how to fix/remove this
>KHL> incorrect kernel message? Thanks!
>
>Make sure you uncomment the line:
>
>INSTALL_PATH=/boot
>
>In the /usr/src/linux/Makefile. Then, a "make zlilo" will install the
>kernel where RH4.0's lilo configuration expects to find it.
>
> ---Kayvan
>
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At 10:49 AM 11/26/96 -0700, you wrote:
>I just installed a copy of RedHat 4.0 on my i486/66. Everything was
>finally running dandy (well except I can't run X at 16-bit <G>). I wanted
>to upgrade my kernel.... I had done this before in Slack 3.0...
>
>Although I am a newbie to linux I figured it wouldn't be hard... I
>downloaded the source and untarred it into /usr/src/linux. I had to delete
>the old 2.0.18 source because I didn't have enough space on my partition...
> I did a make xconfig, make dep; make clean; make zlilo and make modules
>and modules_install... No problem I thought... so I rebooted and saw it
>was still running 2.0.18... So I look in /etc and see no lilo.conf only
>lilo.conf.orig... I copy it over do the kernel thing again.... Same
>thing... I look in /boot and realize that they are the old vmlinuz and
>System.map so I copy over the ones in / and change the lilo.conf to point
>to /vmlinuz instead of /boot/vmlinuz...
>
>However when I bootup I get module dependancy errors up the wazoo...
>Everything seems to work (I have PPP compiled as a module) but the errors
>are annoying... Can someone point me to information or tell me what I did
>wrong when upgrading??? I didn't think I had to wait for an rpm but do i???
>
>Thanks!
>matt
>
>
>
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