Re: dumb question about upgrading the kernel and SATA disks....
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 01:53:30AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 09:47:42PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > Dear Debian folks,
> >
> > I am running Sarge 3.1 r4 on a 1200MHz AMD Duron chip. I have 256MB of RAM.
> >
> > Linux spc1-burn4-0-0-cust262 2.4.27-2-386 #1 Wed Aug 17 09:33:35 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
> >
> > uname says that I am running the 2.4.27-2 kernel. During the installation the installer
> > decided to use this kernel not 2.6.8. The reason for this flashed by screen rather quickly
> > but maybe it was some hardware issue.....
>
> This is the default kernel for sarge. For 2.6 you should have writen
> 'linux26' at the prompt.
>
> > What would be a good way to check this out? I am interested to upgrade the kernel because I
> > am interested to install a SATA hard drive and some of them might prefer to be installed with
> > a 2.6 kernel if I understand it correctly.
>
> But that still doesn't guarantee it will work. Some controllers want
> newer kernel than the one in sarge.
>
> > Does anyone know what the latest kernel currently is? Where does one download it from? I
> > looked on the web for guides to installing it and found that the instructions instructions on
> > this are quite varied.
> >
> > Here is one example.....
> >
> >
> > apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.17-6-686 kernel-source-2.6.17 kernel-headers-2.6.17-6-686
> > cd /usr/src
> > tar xjvf kernel-source-2.6.17.tar.bz2
> > rm linux
> > ln -s kernel-source-2.6.17 linux
>
> These are instructions to compile a kernel the "generic" way (should
> work on any distro).
Actually looking more carefull these instructions for installing the kernel
source. Usefull if you want to compile your own kernel.
Regards,
Andrei
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