Kernel upgrade questions....

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:18:03 -0500
Charles Malespin <charles.malespin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 18:51 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
> > Charles,
> > 
> > On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 11:11 -0500, Charles Malespin wrote:
> > 
> > > So I installed the 2.6.10 686 kernel package, but at the grub menu it
> > > gave me two options.... and they were both the same!  It didnt say which
> > > one was the 386 and which one was the 686.  Is there some way to change
> > > the names in the grub menu?
> > 
> > That's odd. My grub menu gives me a number of options that typically
> > say:
> > 
> > 	Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.10-5-686
> > 	Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.10-5-386
> > 
> > and other options with '(recovery mode)' appended.
> > 
> > You can change this by editing (with root privs) the
> > file /boot/grub/menu.lst, but this should get updated when you install
> > the new kernel.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Tony.
> > -- 
> > Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester,
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> > 
> > 
> 
> So I got the grub menu working, I just had to reboot for some reason and
> it came up.  But I went ahead and got the 2.6.11 kernel and when I tried
> to boot from it it froze right after I logged in.  I didnt change
> anything etc. since last time(2.6.10 still works) is there some package
> that I need to add to get 2.6.11 to work?  I have an ATI X300 video
> card, 1 Gb Ram DDR-2, P4 3.0 Ghz if that helps...  
> 
Don't use the 2.6.11 kernel - it has "known issues" ( a nice techy way of saying it's f*$%d )

Peter