Install kernel 2.4 additionally with SuSE Linux 7.1
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Applies to
SuSE Linux: Version 7.1
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Request
You have installed SuSE Linux 7.1 successfully. During the installation
you have selected the recommended kernel 2.2.18. Now you would like to
try the "new" kernel 2.4.0
Procedure
- Log in as user root.
- Insert CD 1 in your CD drive.
- Start YaST1.
- Select "System administration" -> "Kernel and boot
configuration" -> "Select boot kernel".
- Select the appropriate 2.4 kernel for your system,
e.g. "Standard kernel 2.4 (pentium optimized)".
- Information: though YaST1 will ask whether LILO should
be executed, there will be no entry for kernel 2.4 in the
file /etc/lilo.conf so that you cannot boot this kernel
directly after the installation. Therefore you can answer
this question with "no".
- Please select "LILO configuration" in the same submenu
in YaST1.
- Press F4 now to create a new LILO boot entry.
- Now enter e.g. the following:
Configuration name: lx24
kernel to be booted by Lilo: /boot/vmlinuz_24
- Now quit YaST1 and open the file /etc/lilo.conf
with your favourite editor.
- Search for the entry:
image = /boot/vmlinuz_24
Below this entry you will find the following line:
initrd = /boot/initrd
- Open the file /etc/rc.config. If you find the entry
INITRD_MODULES=
in the beginning section of
this file, please add _24
to the line above.
The section should then look like this:
#
image = /boot/vmlinuz_24
root = /dev/sda3
label = lx24
initrd = /boot/initrd_24
If you cannot find mentioned entry in /etc/rc.config please
delete the entry regarding initrd
in
the file /etc/lilo.conf.
In this case the section in that
file should look like this:
#
image = /boot/vmlinuz_24
root = /dev/sda3
label = lx24
- Now quit the editor you use to edit /etc/lilo.conf and
carry out the following commands:
mk_initrd
lilo
- When you now select "lx24" in the LILO boot menu the
kernel 2.4 will boot.
Keywords: KERNEL2.4.0, INSTALL, INITRD, UPDATE
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