On Jun 29, 2004 at 12:36, Audsin Dev in a soothing rage wrote: >Hi > >I am using FC1 with 2.4.26 kernel. I felt like upgrading the FC 1 kernel to >2.6.7. So I downloaded the kernel 2.6.7-1.459 rpm from >(http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/RPMS.kernel/) and followed the >procedures mentioned in the http://fedoranews.org/jorge/howto/howto01.shtml >Below i will give the step by step procedure i followed. > >1) downloaded the following rpms: kernel-2.6.7-1.459.i686.rpm, >kernel-doc-2.6.7-1.459.noarch.rpm, kernel-sourcecode-2.6.7-1.459.noarch.rpm, >kernel-utils-2.4-9.1.101.fedora.i386.rpm, >kernel-utils-debuginfo-2.4-9.1.101.fedora.i386.rpm from the arjan's website >(http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/RPMS.kernel/) > >2) sudo rpm -ivh kernel*.rpm (installed the rpm kernel as mentioned in the >fedoranews.org: http://fedoranews.org/jorge/howto/howto01.shtml) I see nothing about modutils being updated. You also need that. You also need an /etc/modprode.conf. [...] >Mouting root filesystem >kjournald starting commit interval 5 sec >Ext3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode >Freeing unused kernel memory 132k freeb > >After freeing the unused kernel memory..my cursor blinks indefinitely and >the boot doest proceed. Might be due to modules not being loaded. See above. You may also need the mkinitrd rpm from Arjan's repo. N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 I demand IMPUNITY! 09:03:41 up 1 day, 2:18, 5 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
