Completely off topic: Linux Kernel Upgrade issues.
- From: "Marquez, Chris" <cmarquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:14:03 -0500
RHEL3ES
Current kernel; 2.4.21-4.ELsmp
SA work is not my cup of tea...I know enough to be dangerous.
My SA is having issues upgrading our kernel from 2.4.21-4 to 2.4.21-15.
Below is his emails, comments, and errors sent to me.
Any thoughts?...anything obvious.
Again, I know this is way off topic, but I'm not on any Linux list and I know a
lot of you are really Linux savvy.
Also, I'm a child in this area and anything overly technical will go over my
head, but I will pas it on...I have personally upgraded or changed kernels two
or three times in my life and that was a while ago (SuSE 7).
Thanks,
Chris Marquez
Oracle DBA
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-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:27 AM
Subject: FW: Kernel Upgrade Instructions
The error is caused because
"/lib/modules/$kernel/modules.dep
does not exist for the kernel i am trying to upgrade to.
But i don;'t know how that gets generated...
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 9:23 AM
Subject: RE: Kernel Upgrade Instructions
I was able to compile the kernel. that was painful, but now I have the
following issue.
I am stucked at the point where I have to create the RAM disk Like so
mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.21-15.ELsmp.img 2.4.21-15.Elsmp
And it fails saying the following
[root@db05 boot]# mkinitrd initrd-2.4.21-15.ELsmp.img 2.4.21-15.ELsmp No dep
file found for kernel 2.4.21-15.Elsmp
I wanted to have both lilo.conf.anaconda and grub.conf so that Ivan can lean
both loaders.
For grub I need the RAM disk and I cannot get it to work.
I have never had these many issues compiling a freaking kernel...
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 8:51 PM
Subject: RE: Kernel Upgrade Instructions
All,
We followed my instructions on the kernel upgrade but the RPM failed to put the
image file under /boot
I then after about 1 hour of dealing with this issue and downloading other
kernel RPMs, decided to download a source RPM for manual compilation.
I have been having a great deal of trouble trying to compile this kernel.
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