Kernel upgrades?

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Tue Aug 23 13:08:52 UTC 2011


On 08/23/2011 08:15 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 08:22 +0200, Christopher Svanefalk wrote:

> 
> Just to provide a more complete answer: the issue with trying to use a
> 3.x kernel on Fedora 14 (or Fedora 15) is that a large number of
> applications and kernel models are designed to expect the 2.x version
> number. They fail to parse the 3.x version and will not run properly.
> This has mostly been worked out for Fedora 16 packages, but the effort
> has not been backported to F14 and F15.
> 
> So I'd recommend that what you probably want to do is to take the SRPM
> for the 2.6.40.3 kernel from Fedora 15 and rebuild it for F14.
> 
> 
> 

 You may possibly need these as well:

   procps, mdadm, device-mapper and module-init-tools

 from F15 as well ... I'd compare the F14 and F15 versions




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