Clint Harshaw wrote:
I've upgraded kernels whenever the latest one came out. Tested it for a couple of days and everything seemed to work fine, so I deleted the previous kernel (2.6.7.something).I have multiple kernel versions installed from yum/apt with no trouble. After upgrading to 2.6.8, I too had the CD burning problem, so I went back to 2.6.7-1.456_4.rhfc2.at. I also have 2.6.8 and 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 installed. I have been using the Synaptic GUI for apt-get mostly, which adds kernel upgrades into the grub.conf so that there are many kernel choices when I see the grub menu at bootup. I like setting it up this way because I have other choices if one kernel doesn't work. I haven't upgraded a kernel with yum for a while, but I think I remember yum simply replaces the kernel entry in the grub.conf so that you only have 1 kernel choice in the menu. This isn't a problem, and you can always add in your own kernel entires if you want.
Now I've learned that I can't burn CD's with my current kernel, and the recommended solution that keeps coming up is to downgrade the kernel to the 2.6.7.x kernel, which I've deleted.
The errors I'm getting are posted at this url: http://www.penguinsolutions.org/errors
I can't burn cds, even as a root user.
So is there a way that I can put the 2.6.7.x kernel back on here with yum? I'm using a yum.conf that is only minorly modified from that one found at fedorafaq.org (seamonkey is on there, and I've commented out the testing and unstable repos).
Thanks, Clint
To install an older kernel version, you could just go to the repo website of your choice and download the rpm version you want, or if you know the exact name of the rpm, you could do
yum install kernel#2.6.7-1.494.2.2
Good luck!
