From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leonid Mamchenkov Subject: Re: Updating the kernel of a RedHat 7.3 Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:18:29 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030305091829.GA3555@francoudi.com> References: <3E64DC09.C15CC287@tid.es> Reply-To: Leonid Mamchenkov Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E64DC09.C15CC287@tid.es> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org Dear Miguel Gonz?lez Casta?os, Once you wrote about "Updating the kernel of a RedHat 7.3": MGlCo> I have followed the instructions of redhat of how to upgrade a kernel MGlCo> downloading from the upgrades.redhat.com web page the corresponding MGlCo> RPMs. It looks like you haven't followed all instructions... MGlCo> I have downloaded the following RPMs for my fresh installation: MGlCo> kernel-2.4.18-24.7.x.i686.rpm MGlCo> kernel-source-2.4.18-24.7.x.i686.rpm MGlCo> kernel-smp-2.4.18-24.7.x.i686.rpm (since its a double proccesor box) Sometimes you need a little more then that, like modutils, for example. MGlCo> I did the upgrade of the kernel-source RPM and had to use -ivh --nodeps MGlCo> --force options to install the kernel and the kernel-smp RPMs. Using either of --nodeps and --force is asking for troubles... not to mention a combination of two. MGlCo> MGlCo> I noticed that the kernel progress bar only reached the 50%. Bad sign. MGlCo> Everything seems to be fine, but what could be wrong or everything is MGlCo> fine? If you can run lilo without any complaints, I'd call it a pretty good sign. Otherwise, noone knows. :) -- Best regards, Leonid Mamtchenkov, RHCE System Administrator Francoudi & Stephanou Ltd.