On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 14:54 -0400, Mike Pepe wrote: > > Gordon Price wrote: > > Kind Folks, > > > > I am running into an issue that has me really bugged. I have one > > machine that has the *2.6.11-1.27FC3smp* kernel and another with the > > *2.6.11-1.27FC3* non-smp kernel. I need to use the smp version for a > > project that only works with this version of FC3 that uses a USB 2.0 > > video device I designed. I have looked everywhere I know to figure out > > how to get the smp kernel on the non-smp machine, and I can not seem to > > back track the steps correctly. > > > > I have tried yum every which way but loose, and can not get an smp > > kernel period, to install or upgrade on the non-smp machine. Yum wants > > to upgrade me to 2.6.12, and I don't want to do that. > > > > On the machine that does not have the smp kernel, I tried copying all > > the smp files (4) that were in /boot on the smp machine to the /boot > > directory on the non-smp machine. I then added an entry in > > /etc/grub.conf for the smp kernel boot. This does not work at all. This > > issue makes me worry that Linux hard drives may be more difficult to > > move from machine to machine in a pre-configured format than I had > > wished???? You need the SMP files from "/boot" (at least the vmlinuz and initrd files) AND the entire module directory at "/lib/modules/<kernelversion>-smp" directory on the non-SMP machine. You also need to edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file to include the SMP kernel. Of course, if you have the SMP binary RPM, copy that to the non-SMP machine and force an install via "rpm -ivh kernel-whatever-smp.rpm". That's the cleanest way to do it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - When all else fails, try reading the instructions. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
