So I'm doing a manual kernel upgrade of a new RH73 install. The manual
process is to find all kernel RPMs with:
rpm -qa |grep kernel
which reveals:
kernel-2.4.18-3
kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.27-18
as well as other supporting RPMs with:
rpm -q mkinitrd sysVinit initscripts
which reveals:
mkinitrd-3.3.10-1
package sysVinit is not installed
initscripts-6.67-1
A look at updates.redhat.com/7.3/en/os/i386 reveals that only
kernel-2.4.18-3 has a update (kernel-2.4.18-5), so does this mean that I'm
golden on the other packages? I'm thinking yes.
So then the process to upgrade the kernel should then be:
1. run rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.18-5.i386.rpm
2. check /boot for:
System.map -> System.map-2.4.18-5
config-2.4.18-3
initrd-2.4.18-5.img
module-info -> module-info-2.4.18-5
vmlinux-2.4.18-5
vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.4.18-5
3. Add to /boot/grub/grub.conf:
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-5)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-5 ro root=/dev/hda2
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-5.img
Steps 2 and 3 might, in fact, be taken care of already. The documentation
at
http://www.redhat.com/support/resources/howto/kernel-upgrade/
was a bit outdated... but none the less!
Sound about right? Any insight? I'm doing this manually because I want to
see the process and I have a bunch of systems to do it on. If the first one
goes ok then I will probably do rpm -Uvh kernel-2.4.18-5.i386.rpm
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