On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 19:50, Andrew Konosky wrote: > 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). > > > > 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 > > > > > 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. > rpm -U will *replace* the kernel either rpm -i or yum {update|install} will *add* the new kernel entry to grub.conf > 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! >
