RE: Upgrading a 2.2 kernel (3.0r2) to 2.6
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Madden [mailto:gomadtroll@gci.net]
> Sent: Thursday, 23 December 2004 5:40 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Upgrading a 2.2 kernel (3.0r2) to 2.6
>
> On Wednesday 22 December 2004 11:37 pm, 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?
>
> Caveat I am not a sys admin..etc., but my experience has
> indicated a conflict with kernel 2.6 file system requirements
> compared to the 2.4 kernel,I could be way of base, but,esp,
> in a remote admin situation, until I understood all the
> ramifications of what a 2.6 kernel requires I would use the
> latest 2.4 kernel.
>
> It is said Debian will upgrade from one version to the next,
> but I don't, yet, see a smooth transition from 2.4 to 2.6, YMMV.
> --
> Greg C. Madden
>
>
Well if it's not clean from 2.4, it's certainly not going to be clean from
2.2. So what does one do here? Surely it can't be a case of "try it and then
fix the stuff that breaks". I've never had any problems myself upgrading
kernels before, but I suppose I've always gone 2.2 -> 2.4 -> 2.6.
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