online article: "how to upgrade to the 2.6 kernel"

[Bill Anderson]

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 10:44, Ben Hsu wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 08:59, Jack Bowling wrote:
> 
> > One suggestion I would offer is to *not* do a make oldconfig using a 2.4 series .config file when doing your first 2.6 compile. So many things have changed in the overall structure that things may get missed. oldconfig is fine once you have a working 2.6 .config, though.
> > 
> There are several options you had to start turning on in 2.6 related to
> console output. From Dave Jones' document:
> 
> - Blank screen after decompressing kernel?
>   Make sure your .config has
>   CONFIG_INPUT=y, CONFIG_VT=y, CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y and CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
>   A lot of people have discovered that taking their .config from 2.4 and
>   running make oldconfig to pick up new options leads to problems, notably
>   with CONFIG_VT not being set.
> 
> What I would do is download the kernel, initrd, and module rpms from http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel
> install them, and use the .config found in the kernel-source rpm

That's what I did a few weeks ago and have been running fine on
2.6-test2 since. :)

... of course, I'm running 8 +parts of 9 courtesy of yum too.

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Bill Anderson
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bill at noreboots.com