installing kernel.2.6.9-42.ELsmp on RHEL 4 64Bit

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 08:50 -0800, Mobolaji.Osinuga at alcatel-lucent.fr
wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Did you update your boot parameters? I mean the grub.conf to reflect the new 
> kernel. If this was not done automatically, it will still be loading the old 
> kernel.
> 
> You can try uname -a to check the kernel loaded.

Actually, "uname -r" displays JUST the kernel version.  "uname -a"
displays everything.

And again, unless you do the "make modules_install;make install", the
new kernel will NOT be installed.

> 
> Many thanks and BR,
> 
> Mobolaji
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> >      (Sujitkumar Shirkar)
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> > Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:53:57 +0000
> > From: "Sujitkumar Shirkar" <sujitkumar_shirkar at hotmail.com>
> > Subject: installing kernel.2.6.9-42.ELsmp on RHEL 4 64Bit
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> > Hello All
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> > we are installing Mellox Infiniband (IB) card in our new Linux server
> > running with RHEL4 64 bit OS with kernel 2.6.9-33ELsmp
> >
> > the new IB card requries new kernel 2.6.9-42.ELsmp,  any link from where i
> > can download it
> >
> > Well i managed to download kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.src.rpm from web, i used
> > following commands to update my kernel but it not showing me at boot 
> > prompt
> >
> >
> > can you guys advise me on how to update kernel to install IB card in it
> >
> > i did following commands
> >
> > # rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.9-42.EL.src.rpm
> >
> > # rpmbuild -bp --target $(uname -m) kernel-2.6.spec
> >
> > # cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.9/linux-2.6.9/
> >
> > # make menuconfig
> >
> > # enabled IB support and saved the config
> >
> > # make
> >
> > # reboot
> >
> > after reboot i was not able to see updated kernel in my boot prompt any
> > help? where i am making mistake?
> >
> > Please send me step by step kernel update procedure in this case.
> >
> > Waiting for your reply
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> > Sujitkumar Shirkar
> > Muumbai - India
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