Kent West wrote:
raymond gree wrote:I would assume there's an advantage, since the K7 variant is compiled for the Athlon/Duron.Hi,I have an AMD2100 on my mother board, I would like to know if there is an advantage to use the K7 kernel. I tried to install it but did not succeed. is there a procedure to so this kernel upgrade ?Thanks RaymondMake sure you have the line "initrd=/initrd.img" in your Linux stanza in /etc/lilo.conf.apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.20-k7 "Continue" or don't "Stop now". Reboot
I recently upgraded my PIII-450 Motherboard to a faster Athalon MB with and AMD 1333 processor. When I did the initial boot, I still was using the 2.4.19-686 kernel and everything worked fine. I then upgraded to the 2.4.19-k7 kernel, and everything still worked fine. I can't say I found much difference...performance wise, but then I didn't do any in-depth studies. I do know that with the 2.4.19-k7 kernel all the VIA chipsets are detected and setup properly for all my IDE devices. I can't say they were not with the other kernel, though.
I would echo Kent's caution about making sure the "initrd=/initrd.img" statement is in your /etc/lilo.conf file. It absoultely needs this to be able to boot. There is a caution about this during the install. This is especially true if you are upgrading from the 2.4.18-bf4 kernel, which doesn't have that line. That is about the only thing I have found that would cause the new kernel-image package not to work.
Cheers, -Don Spoon-