Want to upgrade kernel from 2.4.20-8 to 2.4.22 (redhat linux 9.0)

[Praveen R]

I want to know which file should i download and from where. Because i downloaded and tried one file and got " Kernel panic" error. I see lot files with "nptl" what is this?? and i have Intel PII pc, which file is appropriate for this platform ??Pls help..I read a disscussion with subject "Upgrading kerenel" in ITRC, i hope same procedure holds good even for this. If there is anything else pls let me know.

Regards
Praveen

[Huc_1]

for the how-to part have a look at the following link

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/s1-kernel-perform-upgrade.html

as for the where from try

http://www.redhat.com/download/mirror.html

Hope this help

J-P

[Steven E. Protter]

You have tried the upgrade and its failed. You should at this point edit the grub.conf file and default the system to the prior kernel.

Then eliminate all files named afer the new kernel.

This links above are good. I don't know why you got the error, if you used Red Hat Network, this should have been very smooth for you.

SEP

[Praveen R]

Hi,
I tried RHN but it did not help as it had 2.4.20 as latest kernel.

The following URL was useful: http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialOptimization.html#KERNELCOMPILE

Now 2.4.22 is up and running. Thanks for all your help ..

Regards
Praveen

[Stuart Browne]

Something to be aware of..

RH back-port most changes in packages and leave the version number as the distributed number, but change the revision number.

The latest eratta kernels from RH are along the liens of 2.4.20-20 (20 revisions on this series of kernel).

The last few changes listed in the changelog of the kernel:

* Wed Jul 16 2003 Arjan van de Ven

- add proc and execve fixes
- update ide drivers to fix critical bugs

* Sat Jul 12 2003 Rik van Riel

- upgrade to latest -rmap to fix #89226, #90668, etc.

So unless there's something specifically in 2.4.22, that isn't listed in these bug fixes, you'd probably be better off with the RH kernel on a RH system.

Just my opinion however.. ;)