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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Completely off topic: Linux Kernel Upgrade issues.
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
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_at_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.
-- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Tue Nov 01 2005 - 09:16:19 CST
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