-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 15 April 2004 13:21, Rory wrote: > On Thursday 15 April 2004 7:29 am, Rick Kunath wrote: > > Thanks for the tips on the kernel install. > > > > I have installed them many times. > > > > What was curious about the behavior of Mandrake Update in this case > > is that unlike the behavior in the past, the kernel source was > > never shown in the update list. In the past, whenever a new bugfix > > kernel was released, the kernel source would show up in the updates > > list, prompting the user to install it, then follow that with the > > installation of the appropriate kernel as you described. The > > presence of the kernel source was always a good flag that new > > kernels were available for installation. That didn't happen this > > time. > > Interesting, Becasause yesterday, urpmi did prompt me to install > 2.6.3-8mdk. So, I did, noting that people on this forum had said that > you don't install kernals that way. Everything seemed to go fine. > But now, I can't find 2.6.3-8. I don't know where it installed to > and it hasn't appeared as an option in my boot configuration. > > Rory
It may be that your 'linux' option has had its pointer changed to the new kernel, so you don't see it. I think that's what happened when I installed an additional one. You will probably find that /boot/vmlinuz and /boot/initrd are linked to the new one. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAfoGrkFAvMr/nNX8RAouuAKCJBwbLZ7maP3a+WEy5o2PGatoKOgCghTEl BqJQRPngyXl4r4B8z99geII= =Fe/5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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