[newbie] kernel upgrades
I am assuming I need to upgrade my kernel as my radeon 9700 doesn't work with the new intel 875 chipset. X keeps telling me that it can't use AGPGart. What is the easiest way to do this? I am running MDK 9.1. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] kernel upgrades
On Saturday 19 Jul 2003 2:40 am, Tsyko wrote: I am assuming I need to upgrade my kernel as my radeon 9700 doesn't work with the new intel 875 chipset. X keeps telling me that it can't use AGPGart. What is the easiest way to do this? I am running MDK 9.1. Thanks The easiest and safest way is to go to your boot directory and copy and paste vmlinuz and initrd.mdk.img to include the current name, e.g. initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img. Then, instead of upgrading, you install the new kernel. When you have done that, rename them to include the version as well. You will then have to manually edit lilo.conf so that it offers you the old and the new version, using the new names of the files to tell it which one to load. The advantage to this is that if something goes wrong you can always boot back to the old kernel. Personally, I would put in an extra stanza in the lilo.conf using the new names, before I did the install. Don't forget that you have to run /sbin/lilo as root when you have made any changes, or it will still act on the old one. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Kernel upgrades from rpms
Earlier today I downloaded _again_ 'kernel-2.2.17-21mdk.i586.rpm'. I rebooted and as root used kpackage to install the rpm package. Everything _appeared_ to run normally except for a message saying 'Execution of script failed', What script failed? Where can I go to view said script to locate the source or reason for the failure? The kernel is there, the system boots ok, there don't appear to be any errors in dmesg or in /var/log/message, however I'm intrigued by the content of my /boot directory, as follows: total 1703 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Nov 16 15:49 ./ drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Nov 11 22:53 ../ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Nov 16 15:44 System.map - System.map--a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 174024 Jan 5 2000 System.map-2.2.14-15mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 216464 Oct 6 00:24 System.map-2.2.17-21mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root512 Nov 12 11:47 boot.0300 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4568 Oct 18 1999 boot.b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root612 Oct 18 1999 chain.b drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 12 11:34 grub/ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root365 Nov 16 15:52 kernel.h drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Nov 12 10:17 lost+found/ -rw--- 1 root root 16896 Nov 16 15:49 map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root183 Nov 14 23:22 message lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Nov 12 10:58 module-info - module-info-2.2.14-15mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11773 Jan 5 2000 module-info-2.2.14-15mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root620 Oct 18 1999 os2_d.b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root256 Nov 12 11:47 us-latin1.klt lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 16 15:44 vmlinuz - vmlinuz--a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 16 15:44 vmlinuz--a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 615960 Jan 5 2000 vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 665029 Oct 6 00:24 vmlinuz-2.2.17-21mdk -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 16 15:43 vmlinuz.old What intrigues is that; a) System.map is linked to System.map--a _but_ System.map--a doesn't appear in the listing - why? Where is it? b) module-info appears to be still linked to the 2.2.14 modules - why? How do I or do I need to regenerate module-info?? Cheers -- ICQ#: 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
