upgrading to an SMP kernel

[Gordon Price]

Rick Stevens wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 14:54 -0400, Mike Pepe wrote:
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>>Gordon Price wrote:
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>>>Kind Folks,
>>>
>>>   I am running into an issue that has me really bugged. I have one 
>>>machine that has the *2.6.11-1.27FC3smp* kernel and another with the 
>>>*2.6.11-1.27FC3* non-smp kernel. I need to use the smp version for a 
>>>project that only works with this version of FC3 that uses a USB 2.0 
>>>video device I designed.  I have looked everywhere I know to figure out 
>>>how to get the smp kernel on the non-smp  machine, and I can not seem to 
>>>back track the steps correctly.
>>>
>>>    I have tried yum every which way but loose, and can not get an smp 
>>>kernel period, to install or upgrade on the non-smp machine. Yum wants 
>>>to upgrade me to 2.6.12, and I don't want to do that.
>>>
>>>   On the machine that does not have the smp kernel, I tried copying all 
>>>the smp files (4) that were in /boot on the smp machine to the /boot 
>>>directory on the non-smp machine. I then added an entry in 
>>>/etc/grub.conf for the smp kernel boot. This does not work at all. This 
>>>issue makes me worry that Linux hard drives may be more difficult to 
>>>move from machine to machine in a pre-configured format than I had 
>>>wished????
>>>      
>>>
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>You need the SMP files from "/boot" (at least the vmlinuz and initrd
>files) AND the entire module directory at
>"/lib/modules/<kernelversion>-smp" directory on the non-SMP machine.
>You also need to edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file to include the SMP
>kernel.
>
>Of course, if you have the SMP binary RPM, copy that to the non-SMP
>machine and force an install via "rpm -ivh kernel-whatever-smp.rpm".
>That's the cleanest way to do it.
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>
Rick,

    Have any idea where the source rpm for 2.6.11-1.27FC3smp can be 
found? This rings a bell. Maybe this is what I did back in May when I 
was creating the other machine that does have the smp kernel.

Thanks,
BEST!

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