[TriLUG] Question: RH7.2 kernel update problem via Red HatNet/up2date?

William W. Ward wwward at pobox.com
Sun Aug 4 14:24:25 EDT 2002


This is true, it does install the new kernel and give you a backup to work
from if it FUBARs.  However, it failed to fail in this case.

Scoping out Usenet courtesy Google's groups archive, and speaking briefly
with Tanner about the failure, it appears that the modules aren't loading up
under the new kernel.  As best I can tell, modules are distributed with the
kernel RPM, but in this circumstance, they're not being loaded at boot.
Earlier Kevin mentioned something about using mkinitrd, which I'll focus on
again now, but it didn't solve the problem in the first case, before I
reloaded the OS from scratch.

This is of interest to me to solve, as I have TWO MORE of these same
machines, identical to the unit I'm working on here.  I'd like to be able to
load and update RH on them all. What I figure out on this box will take care
of the others.

-b-


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeremy Katz" <katzj at linuxpower.org>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Question: RH7.2 kernel update problem via Red
HatNet/up2date?


> FWIW, up2date actually special cases the kernel and installs the new one
> as opposed to upgrading it just for this reason.  It does, though,
> change the default for you.






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