[ale] RH kernel upgrades (was 'Re: miscellaneous questions')

[JANINDRA at MS.NDCORP.COM]

I have been working on this issue as well. I think the problem is that when
you "RPM" in the new kernel you have to build coresponding modules and rerun
LILO. If you do get a chance to screw up your system by doing an "rpm -ivh
kernel-xxxxxx" you can just "rpm -Uv" it then "rpm -ivh" the old package.

--Randy

> Ben Phillips wrote:
> 
> > * I'm new to Red Hat.  When I installed new kernel source using an RPM,
it
> > screwed up somehow.  I infer this from the fact that kernel compiles
fail
> > now -- and for that matter, so does an ssh compile (!).  How would you
go
> > about trying to fix what happened without messing up rpm's business?
>
> I'm trying to deal with this kernel compiling business myself - no success
> yet.
> 
> There's a text file that winds up in /usr/src/linux/Documentation after
> untarring called Changes and it goes over all the OTHER things that must
be at
> a particular rev level for compiling to work.  I gave up and decided I
would
> try to recompile my orig kernel and wrestle with that later.

BTW, I ended up just slapping in a good old .tar.gz kernel distrib.  Is this
bad under RH?  If so, why?

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