Re: upgrade debian kernel on nslu2
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:43:54PM +0200, Xan wrote:
> En/na johan.vervloet@gmail.com ha escrit:
> >On 27 jul, 22:00, Xan <DXpubl...@telefonica.net> wrote:
> >>Johan, can you maintain me informed about what you follow _exactly_ for
> >>installing new kernel? I have nslu2 and I have installed debian
> >>following de same link too. I want to compile new kernel that were the
> >>same nslu2 has now + pax support. I searched info but no info convinced
> >>me. I'm a novice user (I compile kernel in i386 machines but no nslu2)
> >
> >It seemed that I just needed an updated version of the pegasus kernel
> >module, which is included in the kernel-image of testing:
> >http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/linux-image-ixp4xx
> >
> >So I just downloaded the deb, and installed it using apt-get.
> >
>
> Okay thank you very much, but how to put the new kernel in the boot loader?
>
> Steps are:
> 1) apt-get install linux-image-ipx4xx
> 2) [make menuinstall?]
> 3) [put the new kernel in boot loader?]
>
> Can you clarify me
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Xan.
I'm not sure what you mean about putting the kernel in the boot
loader.
The kernel is written to a partition in flash where the boot loader
looks for it. You don't need to do anything to the boot loader or
boot loader environment to use a new kernel.
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