On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Darque wrote:
Good rule of thumb - don't rpm -Uvh binary kernel rpms :)
Also - you have to upgrade more then the kernel* files, you have
several other version specific packages that have to be upgraded ( ie
modules ) along with the kernel.
Then the key is to KEEP the origional kernel on the drive, at
least the zImage file and the module tree. Just change the directory name
for the modules, and add the zImage as sya Linux_Old in lilo - so you can
atleast boot and fix things :)
> AAHHH!! I really broke it this time.
>
> OK, this morning I got all of the kernel rpm's out of the 5.1 updates directory
> on Redhat. I then did rpm -Uvh kernel*.rpm, and everything appeared to update
> without a hitch. Unfortunately, upon rebooting my system, I have an ENDLESS
> scroll of error messages...never even get to a login that you can see for all
> the scroll. I was able to ALT-F2 and login there, but cannot DO anything. No
> PPP support, cannot even load my CD-ROM to try and go back to the old kernel
> that came with the distribution. I am currently having to shell in from
> someone elses windows machine just to send this. Can anyone tell me if there
> is a way out of this mess without a re-install. I guess it was a foolish
> newbie assumption for me to think that considering WHERE the file came from,
> that is was a drop-in replacement for my stock, original, distribution kernel.
>
>
> Thanks in advance!!
> Jeff
>
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