Help With K7 Kernel

[Steve Haines]

On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 20:56 +0100, Carsten wrote:

> Steve Haines schrieb:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> | I would like to try the K7 specific kernel. "sudo apt-get install
> | linux-K7" went fine. I now have in /lib/modules/:
> |
> | 2.6.8.1-3-386 (current kernel)
> | 2.6.8.1-4-k7
> | 2.6.9-1-k7
> |
> | Why I have TWO k7 modules, I don't know.
> 
> Obviously you use Hoary-Repositores. You have two kernels because
> upgrading to 2.6.9 doesn't mean uninstalling 2.6.8, Ubuntu won't use it
> any more, but it remains installed. So probably 2.6.8.1-4-k7 was already
> installed. The meta-package linux-k7 always installs the current
> k7-kernel, in this case it has additionally installed 2.6.9-1-k7.
> 
> | What is the next step? Which of the wiki how-to's is the one to follow?
> 
> Actually a system restart should boot your new kernel because the kernel
> image install script usually configures the bootloader to use a newly
> installed kernel as default.
> Optionally you can uninstall linux-image-2.6.8.1-4-k7 after confirming
> the new kernel works the way you want it to.
> Carsten

Yes, thanks . . . All went correctly. I forgot to manually copy menu.lst
to the Libranet partition that actually controls the booting. When I
did, I got all the options:
Ubuntu 2.6.9-1-k7
Ubuntu 2.6.8.1-4-k7
Ubuntu 2.6.8-1-386
Windows 98
Libranet 2.4.21

Thanks for the help, Carsten!