Re: How to downgrade kernel?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

> Anyway, at the expense of being locked to a specific kernel version, 
> I'd really like to get it working.  So I use apt-get to download the 
> appropriate kernel, headers and pcmcia-modules.  But how do I 
> "activate" it?  Presumably I need an initrd image in my boot 
> partition?  None have been forthcoming.

When you apt-getted the kernel, it should have placed the new kernel and 
the initrd.img in /boot, created symlink (vmlinuz and initrd) in / that 
points to them, and then run lilo. When lilo ran, it should have warned 
you about putting "initrd=/initrd.img" in /etc/lilo.conf. If you did, 
before lilo finished running, then all that should be left is to reboot. 
If you did not, add that line to the appropriate stanza in lilo.con, 
re-run lilo, and reboot.

--
Kent