Kernel 2.6.24 -- gee that was fun...not!

Bill Davidsen davidsen at tmr.com
Sat Mar 15 20:26:16 UTC 2008


Frank Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:01:15 -0700
> Paul Lemmons <paul.lemmons at tmcaz.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> I had the 2.6.23 kernel and was able to boot from it but the 
>>>> kernel-headers had been replaced with the 2.6.24 version. In cleaning 
>>>> up that I had also cleaned up the kernel-devel packages (probably a 
>>>> mistake). Either way, though, to get the headers back in sync with the 
>>>> kernel I had to go out to the koji site.
> 
> This brings up an interesting question.  It doesn't look like livna
> keeps the "old" rpms for ATI and Nvidia drivers on their site after a new
> kernel version is released.
> 
> How can someone who is using ATI or Nvidia drivers from Livna revert to the
> previous kernel in that situation?
> 
Frank, after the base install you change yum.conf to *keep* the rpms it 
downloads, and back them up. From there you can install by hand, or 
better yet run 'createrepo' and update from a local repository.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
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