Re: Upgrading a 2.2 kernel (3.0r2) to 2.6
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 04:37:27PM +0800, Cameron G wrote:
> I'm just wondering, what's the best practice for upgrading a default
> installation 3.0 installation to the latest and greatest? I'd really rather
> avoid rolling my own kernels, it always ends up being a pain to maintain,
> and I have several servers to look after. The reason I'm asking is that I
> just got debian (r2) on a dedicated server over the other side of the globe,
> and I basically went like this:
>
> apt-get install kernel-image-2.6
> vi /etc/lilo.conf (for adding the initrd stuff)
> /sbin/lilo
> reboot
>
> ... And it unfortunately decided not to come back up. The tech support there
> are playing with it as we speak. So where did I go wrong? I've scoured
> google for the last few hours, all I can seem to find are people documenting
> installing from source, but I'm not finding much on "type these 6 commands
> and it all just magically works". Anyone got any suggestions?
>
You need newer versions of modutils at the very least. If they can't get
it back up easily can they begin an install of sarge for you (testing
currently, stable soon) which should support 2.6 out of the box.
Andy
>
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