Re: [PLUG] Upgrading Debian testing from kernel 2.4 to 2.6

[Mike Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

Mike Leone wrote:
> Stephen Gran wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 08:38:29PM -0400, Mike Leone said:
> > > Hopefully, when I reboot, and choose the new 2.6 kernel, it'll boot. 
> > > If not, hopefully it will boot it the (running) 2.4.27. Will it, do 
> > > you think?
> >
> > So long as you haven't messed with the running kernel or it's initrd,
> > you should be able to boot back into the running kernel and be no worse
> > off.
>
> Don't think I've done anything to the running kernel, or removed any 
> initrd packages ...
>
> > For building a kernel with make-kpkg and so on:
> > http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html
>
> I'm old school. :-) Downloaded the kernel source; did a make menuconfig; 
> then make clean; make modules; make modules_install; make install. Edit 
> grub boot menu; grub-update. Cross fingers; reboot. :-)
>
> Since this is my mail server, I'll either be back on the list later 
> tonight, or re-sub from a gmail address ...
>
> (then again, I probably should try the kernel-pkg route ....)

And it all worked. Took a long while to go thru all the new options on 
2.6 (forgot to include my NIC card the first time I compiled :-)), but I 
did get it to boot into 2.6.21 correctly. At that point, it was easy to 
do a "apt-get -f install" and finish the upgrade. Then I used aptitude 
to upgrade the other important bits (postfix, samba, etc).

Thanks for all the help!

> Thanks


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