Re: upgrading to later kernal??

[Cameron Simpson <cs zip com au>]

On 17:25 07 Nov 2003, Mark Knecht <markknecht comcast net> wrote:
| On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 17:06, Tom Eastgard wrote:
| > I'm running RH 9 current as to any and all patch and updates published
| > by RedHat...which I think includes up to kernel 2.4.20.
| > What sort of trouble might I be asking for if I were to try to upgrade
| > my kernel to 2.4.22 or 23?  ..bypassing RH?   ....(gasp!) even 2.6(test9)?
|    Not a lot, really. However, please be informed that your machine may
| of may not work like it does today due to the fact that a kernel from
| kernel.org will not have all of Redhat's patches applied.
[...]
|    IF you haven't done this before, it's sort of daunting, but at the
| same time not that difficult. Also, you can have both kernels on your
| machine and choose them at boot time with LILO or grub, so there isn't
| much risk.

In particular, do an "rpm -iv" instead of an "rpm -Fv" when you upgrade
a RedHat kernel. That installs the new one and _does_not_ remove the
old one. Leaves you a fall back if it gives you issues.
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