I have seen various messages on this list about updating the kernel so I
thought I would share my experiences. IMHO, the easiest way is to use the
RPMs built by Mandrake from
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake5.3/updates/kernel2.2/RPM
S/kernel/
I downloaded kernel-2.2.5-5mdk.i386 and kernel-headers-2.2.5-5mdk.i386 into
a directory I created on my hard drive. I checked both by changing to the
directory I downloaded them to and using the command:
rpm -K --nopgp *rpm
Both should return a "size md5 ok" . I then installed both of them using the
commands:
rpm -ivh kernel-2.2.5-5mdk.i386
rpm -ivh kernel-headers-2.2.5-5mdk.i386
This automatically installed a directory in /usr/src called
2.2.5-mdk and a file in /boot called vmlinuz-2.2.5-5mdk.
I then downloaded all the file updates from:
ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake5.3/updates/kernel2.2/RPM
S/updates/
and checked them using the same command as before then installed them using:
rpm -Uvh *.rpm
I then edited my /etc/lilo.conf file to add the following lines right after
the "timeout=50" line:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-5mdk
label=new
root=/dev/hda(whatever your boot partition is)
read-only
I then issued the command /sbin/lilo and received confirmation that "new"
had been added. It should be noted that I do not boot from a SCSI disk so I
do not need a "initrd=...." line in my lilo.conf file. I then rebooted and
selected "new" at the LILO boot prompt and booted a preconfigured kernel.
If you want to recompile the preconfigured kernel, you must also download
and install
kernel-source-2.2.5-5mdk.i386.rpm. If you do not have pgcc installed as your
compiler, you need to make the changes listed at:
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/kernel2.2-upgrade.html
There are also various fixes for post kernel installation problems found
there.
YMMV and corrections to my method encouraged,
HTH,
Cindy
