RE: [gentoo-user] To upgrade or Not/to upgrade the kernel??

2004-01-05 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 15:35, Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) wrote: > > How do I know which packages contain kernel modules??? > > Is there a way for me to check before loading the new Kernel > > sources so > > I know what needs to be remerged again? > > I don't know of a quick way. You would ha

Re: [gentoo-user] To upgrade or Not/to upgrade the kernel??

2004-01-05 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Joshua Banks wrote: --- Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 05 Jan 2004 15:24, Joshua Banks wrote: How do I know which packages contain kernel modules??? Is there a way for me to check before loading the new Kernel sources so I know what needs to be remerged again? qpkg -I -nc -f

Re: [gentoo-user] To upgrade or Not/to upgrade the kernel??

2004-01-05 Thread Joshua Banks
--- Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 05 Jan 2004 15:24, Joshua Banks wrote: > > How do I know which packages contain kernel modules??? > > Is there a way for me to check before loading the new Kernel > sources > > so I know what needs to be remerged again? > > > qpkg -I -nc -f /

Re: [gentoo-user] To upgrade or Not/to upgrade the kernel??

2004-01-05 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Monday 05 Jan 2004 15:24, Joshua Banks wrote: > How do I know which packages contain kernel modules??? > Is there a way for me to check before loading the new Kernel sources > so I know what needs to be remerged again? > qpkg -I -nc -f /lib/modules Peter --

RE: [gentoo-user] To upgrade or Not/to upgrade the kernel??

2004-01-05 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
> -Original Message- > From: Joshua Banks > > --- "Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)" > > > You can keep both kernel versions around and reload the last one if > > you are > > having trouble. However, every time you switch, you will have to > > re-emerge > > packages which contain kernel m

RE: [gentoo-user] To upgrade or Not/to upgrade the kernel??

2004-01-05 Thread Joshua Banks
MAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 12:31 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [gentoo-user] To upgrade or Not/to upgrade the kernel?? > > > > > > Hello, > > > > Is it safe to upgrade from 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 to 2.4.22-gentoo-r2? &

RE: [gentoo-user] To upgrade or Not/to upgrade the kernel??

2004-01-05 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 12:31 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [gentoo-user] To upgrade or Not/to upgrade the kernel?? > > > Hello, > > Is it safe to upgrade from 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 to 2.4.22-gentoo-r2? > This is a grey area for me still. I'm slowly ga

Re: [gentoo-user] To upgrade or Not/to upgrade the kernel??

2004-01-03 Thread Sean Johnson
In your grub.conf make sure you have a -old entry. When you build your new kernel, rename your current one to something like bzImage.old (making sure you are consistent with your naming scheme in grub.conf). If the new kernel doesn't work for you, reboot, and select the -old kernel from the grub l

[gentoo-user] To upgrade or Not/to upgrade the kernel??

2004-01-02 Thread Joshua Banks
Hello, Is it safe to upgrade from 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 to 2.4.22-gentoo-r2? This is a grey area for me still. I'm slowly gaining experience though. Where does one look to find out what has changed from 1 version of specific kernel sources to the next. I suppose this would also help in justifying an u