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Re: Upgrading Kernels was yRe: classic & sparc2 install reports



On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 03:44:53PM -0400, Josh Kuperman wrote:
> Oddly, when I went from Stable to Frozen in dselect I noticed that
> there was an SMP kernel available. Whiz, that I am, I thought. Neat -
> I can just run dselect, reboot, and I'll have a dual processor kernel
> running. Apparently this is overly optimistic. deslect immediately
> picked up some libc6 version conflicts, noting that I needed a more
> recent kernel than I had while running deselect. dselect suggested
> just getting one from kernel.org. Since I already had the package in
> /var/cache/apt/archives I tried running "dpkg --install
> kernel-image-2.2.14..SMP " and to its credit even thought the 2.2.14
> kernel is installed in /boot with /boot/vmlinuz poining to it - it
> still booted up the old 2.0.35 kernel.
> 
> Can anyone elaborate on the steps I might have overlooked? Should the
> install and configuration software in dselect be adjusted for people
> like me?

Ooof. This is really my fault. That symlink is supposed to be in /vmlinuz,
since I'm pretty sure your /etc/silo.conf points there instead of
/boot/vmlinuz. Check to make sure. You can either make a new link in /, or
edit silo.conf to look at the right /boot/vmlinuz.

Next set of kernel-images will have the correct symlink.

Ben

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