Re: dist-upgrade on remote server
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 02:35:30PM +0100, Andreas Rabus wrote:
>
> Is it possible to compile a new kernel befor the reboot?
kernel-package is your friend :-)
never manualy install a kernel, create a deb and install that instead.
> Whats about
> Our remote box has an RAID Controler from GDT whos driver surely is not in
> the default kernel...
You might be surprised. The 2.4.x series kernel packages are fully modular
and have nearly everything compiled as a module. I haven't needed to compile
my own kernel since they came out, except when I needed wierd patches applied.
However, make sure you pick the right kernel, and make sure the right
modules will be loaded when it boots. I installed the 2.4-17-686
kernel on this machine before I remembered it was a Pentium classic
(-586tsc) not a Celeron. Fortunately I remembered while the reboot countdown
was going, so I stopped it and installed the right one (only to still stuff
it up).
The discover package is pretty cool for automaticly loading the right
modules. It gets it right about 90% of the time. The only thing I've seen it
get wrong was the rtl8139 instead of 8139too for the 2.4.x kernels. But the
safe way is modconf :-)
Oh, yeah, the other thing to make sure of is your lilo.conf needs the initrd
entry for the 2.4.x kernels.
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> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Donovan Baarda [mailto:abo@minkirri.apana.org.au]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. Februar 2002 14:08
> An: I. Forbes
> Cc: Andreas Rabus; debian-isp@lists.debian.org
> Betreff: Re: dist-upgrade on remote server
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:52:49AM +0200, I. Forbes wrote:
> > Hello Andreas
> >
> > It should be possible. I upgraded a number machines from slink to
> > potato - remotely but I have not started on remote potato to woody
> > upgrades yet. If helps if you have practised on a local machine.
> >
> > I suggest you take a few precautions:
> [...]
> > - be vary careful before you re-boot the machine.
>
> I just had to travel to a server that failed to come up from a reboot after
> remote upgrade to woody. The problem was kernel-2.4.17's initrd stuff didn't
> automaticly load the AHA-2940 module... In the 2.2.x series kernel this must
> have been compiled in, but for the new 2.4.x series it needed an entry in
> /etc/modules. I ended up manualy running modconf to add it in, then
> dpkg-reconfigure'd the kernel to make sure the initrd had it in. Another
> option that _might_ have worked is installing discover...
>
> Just something else to be wary of :-(
>
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