Up2date and Arjan's 2.6 test kernel
Bret Hughes
bhughes at elevating.com
Mon Nov 17 05:23:56 UTC 2003
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 22:44, Dan Goodes wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I've been running fedora (FC1) since it was released, and test 3 before
> that, and am happy with it.
>
> I want to try arjan's test kernels from
>
> http://people.redhat.com/~arjanv/2.5/
>
> I read through some threads on the mailing list, and it seemed the best
> solution would be to just use up2date (since the config is already there).
>
> So I uncommented that line from the /etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources file, and
> ran "up2date kernel-unsupported" (not 100% true - it took a LOT of reading
> to find that I had to run "up2date --nosig kernel-unsupported").
>
> It seems to downloade the kernel and install it fine, but it doesn't
> appear to install anything - "rpm -qa | grep kernel" shows the
> kernel-unsupported RPM there, but there's no change in /boot/ or in
> /boot/grub/grub.conf
>
> I've searched google for answers but have yet to come up with a solution.
> Anything blindingly obvious I am doing wrong?
>
Are you sure you did not install the src rpm?
If you are, then you are saying that there are no new files in /boot?
Bret
More information about the users
mailing list