new kernel problems

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Efthym wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:10:10 +0300, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> 
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Efthym wrote:
>> 
>>> hi all,
>>> 
>>> I installed the new kernel today 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 on my T21.
>>> 1. ibm-acpi module was not autoloaded. These are on the only meesages in 
>>> dmesg:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> can i fix this or ... go back to the old kernel ?
>> 
>> The old kernel is still there.  When you see the GRUB spalsh screen at 
>> boot, press any key.  Then you'll get a selector for all the kernels you 
>> have.
>> 
>> Reported as
>> 
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=167078
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> Thanks for any hints
>>> 
>>> Efthym
>>> 
>>> P.S is there any chance in the near future for ibm-acpi being upgraded to 
>>> v0.11 in the default kernel ?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>
> Thanks Matthew,
>
> I was going to try the development kernel see if that has the same problems, 
> but the one is rawhide is kernel-2.6.13-1.1526_FC5.i686.rpm . I'm worried 
> about the FC5 part. If I install this will I be able to go back to FC4 
> labeled kernels ?

It's likely that an FC5 kernel RPM won't even install in FC4 due to 
dependencies.

up2date and yum always install kernels so that the old kernels remain 
available.  You can set an older kernel to be the default by editing 
/etc/grub.conf and changing the "default=" value.  default=0 is the first 
kernel in the list, default=1 is the second, etc.

-- 
 		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs