On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 15:32, Derek Jennings wrote: > > I had already given instructions on how to install the Mandrake 2.6.8 kernel. > Just click on the link above using konqueror, find the kernel you want to > install and click on it. That will invoke 'gurpmi' which is a little > graphical application which will use urpmi to download and install it for > you. (I am not sure, but this kernel may say it needs to install another > package called 'udev', in which case upgrading to 10.1 may be a better > alternative) > > If you wanted to upgrade to 10.1 the easiest way is to simply obtain the 10.1 > install CDs and choose the 'upgrade' option when you boot from the CD. > Everything is then taken care of for you. >
Not always. I had problems as lilo failed to point to the right kernels on two updates, even though 2.4 and 2.6 kernels were present in lilo.conf I got kernel panics from both.. It appears that initrd.img and vmlinuz were not accurately updated.
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