Re: Upgrading a kernel in a remote server without fears, how
Arnau <arnaulist@andromeiberica.com>:
>
> This is a question that probably has appeared a lot of times here but
> I haven't found a solution.
Google: blah site:lists.debian.org
> Yesterday I went to the data center where our servers are hosted.
> There I tried to upgrade the kernel of one of our servers. It's a Dell
> Poweredge 1950 running a 2.6.18-6-686-bigmem installed via aptitude, no
> manual compilation. I installed linux-image-2.6.26-bpo.1-686-bigmem and
> rebooted it. Afterwards there were no network, drivers problems.
>
> Thanks to I was there I was able to reboot again the server with
> another kernel version.
>
> And here comes my question, is there a way to ensure that the kernel
> will work? I don't think so, but how you do this? upgrade a kernel
The kernel did work. Network/NIC driver config didn't.
Ensure your NIC is supported by the running kernel. Choose
standardized hardware, not stuff that needs (eg.) ndiswrapper, or post
install reconfig.
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