Subject: Re: Kernel swapping for newbies.
From: Aaron Levitt (aaron@ultimatewisdom.com)
Date: Tue Dec 21 1999 - 16:08:51 MST
Wouldn't it be easier just to get the rpm and upgrade that way??
-Aaron
At 4:16 PM -0600 12/21/99, Troy Benjegerdes took the time to write:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Ben Donley wrote:
>
>> Here's my saga:
>>
>> I wanted to install the new Xpmac (supposedly accelerated for the
>>mach64 chip,
>> or something.) It told me I needed glibc 2.1.3 or better and
>>kernel 2.2.10 or
>> better.
>>
>> I figured that all I needed to do to use the new kernel was to download it,
>> gunzip it, put it in my Mac OS system folder, and tell BootX to use it.
>>
>> When I rebooted, I got a million error messages telling me that my
>> /boot/System.map didn't match my kernel. So I put back the old kernel.
>
> You can either
>
> a) Ignore the warnings (my usual favorite ;)
>
> b) get the System.map that matches the kernel you downloaded and replace
> the existing System.map
>
> You should probably also get the modules that correspond with the kernel
> you downloaded. Wherever you downloaded them from should have the modules.
> This may not actually be necessary unless you get messages like 'can't
> load module xxxx' or some things have mysteriously quit working with the
> new kernel.
>
>>
>> I have all kinds of theories on what I should try to do next, but
>>they're all
>> fundamentally flawed...
>>
>> How do you upgrade the kernel in Yellow Dog Linux?
>>
>> I'm running the Champion Server 1.1 with minimal changes.
>>
>> - Ben
>>
>>
>
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