ok well i installed the new kernal. that is 2.4.18-24.8.0 i used to have 2.4.18-14... created the initial ram disk with make initrd etc. etc. edited lilo.conf seems to boot ok.
except that when i was installing the kernal... with rpm -ivh .. i got messages that looked like errors for each kernal just after rpm reported it to be installed. the message looked like.. dirty buffer error.... fatal error... no appropriate template... etc. can't remember the exact text of the message. It seems to boot... but do you think these messages signify a real problem? what do they mean> i also got a different dirty buffer error when running lilo ... do you know what this is? i did install all those new kernals, including smp, bigmem, umi, debug, etc. with the rpm -ivh *.rpm for all in the i686 dir... now my /boot dir looks pretty big... i am only booting from 2.4.18-24.8.0 anyway -----Original Message----- From: Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 3 March 2003 4:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: upgrading kernal. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 11:32 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > ok thats cool. > so what are the ones with bigmem and debug etc. in their names? > will anything bad happen if i install them too? Probably not. bigmem is for machines with lots of ram. (more than 4 Gigabytes) The debug kernel has a lot of debugging options turned on. smp is for machines with multiple processors. Unless you need them, there is really no reason to install them. - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+YuVfn/07WoAb/SsRAgbJAKCjXiLv/xDyhdq16dk2iBZ+B615ywCdH4KQ R3O7EXjXCrpft1+PEva6mGQ= =oZj0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
