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Operating Systems Linux Choosing Linux Kernel Post 51887 by saabir on Friday 4th of June 2004 12:45:35 PM

06-04-2004

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Choosing Linux Kernel

Hi All
I recently upgraded my Mandrake 9.1 box to Mandrake 10.0 and the 2.6 kernel. However when I execute uname -a I still get a 2.4 kernel:

Linux hostname 2.4.21-0.13mdk #1 Fri Mar 14 15:08:06 EST 2003 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

I assume this means I am still booting into a 2.4 kernel? In my /boot directory I have the following:

total 5492
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Oct 24 2003 boot.0300
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 May 17 06:33 config -> config-2.4.21-0.13mdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 47295 Mar 14 2003 config-2.4.21-0.13mdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 54068 Mar 2 06:27 config-2.6.3-4mdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5032 Feb 19 17:03 diag1.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16796 Feb 19 17:03 diag2.img
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 21 16:41 grub/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110657 Oct 24 2003 initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 137415 Apr 21 17:32 initrd-2.6.3-4mdk.img
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Apr 21 17:32 initrd-2.6.img -> initrd-2.6.3-4mdk.img
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Apr 21 17:32 initrd.img -> initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 May 17 06:34 kernel.h -> /boot/kernel.h-2.4.21-0.13mdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 537 Apr 21 17:35 kernel.h-2.4.21-0.13mdk
-rw------- 1 root root 556032 Apr 21 17:32 map
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Apr 21 17:32 message -> message-graphic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 442273 Apr 21 17:32 message-graphic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 116 Apr 21 17:32 message-text
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Oct 24 2003 System.map -> System.map-2.4.21-0.13mdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 582935 Mar 14 2003 System.map-2.4.21-0.13mdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 898362 Mar 2 06:27 System.map-2.6.3-4mdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 256 Oct 24 2003 us-latin1.klt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Apr 21 17:32 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1252778 Mar 14 2003 vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Apr 21 17:31 vmlinuz-2.6 -> vmlinuz-2.6.3-4mdk
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1437568 Mar 2 06:27 vmlinuz-2.6.3-4mdk

./grub:
total 240
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11008 Jan 7 11:19 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10000 Jan 7 11:19 fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9024 Jan 7 11:19 ffs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11200 Jan 7 11:19 jfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9440 Jan 7 11:19 minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12832 Jan 7 11:19 reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jan 7 11:19 stage1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 130029 Jan 7 11:19 stage2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8672 Jan 7 11:19 vstafs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12744 Jan 7 11:19 xfs_stage1_5

There appears to be a 2.6 kernel in this directory - so how do I tell Linux to boot from it, and is that a wise thing to do?

Do I change the symbolic link 'config' to point at the 2.6 config file?

Thanks for any help!

saabir

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addpart

ADDPART(8)                                                     System Administration                                                    ADDPART(8)

NAME

       addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition

SYNOPSIS

       addpart device partition start length

DESCRIPTION

       addpart  tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition.  The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition"
       ioctl.

       This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.

PARAMETERS

       device The disk device.

       partition
              The partition number.

       start  The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

       length The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

SEE ALSO

       delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)

AVAILABILITY

       The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

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