online article: "how to upgrade to the 2.6 kernel"

[Ben Hsu]

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 08:59, Jack Bowling wrote:

> One suggestion I would offer is to *not* do a make oldconfig using a 2.4 series .config file when doing your first 2.6 compile. So many things have changed in the overall structure that things may get missed. oldconfig is fine once you have a working 2.6 .config, though.
> 
There are several options you had to start turning on in 2.6 related to
console output. From Dave Jones' document:

- Blank screen after decompressing kernel?
  Make sure your .config has
  CONFIG_INPUT=y, CONFIG_VT=y, CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y and CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
  A lot of people have discovered that taking their .config from 2.4 and
  running make oldconfig to pick up new options leads to problems, notably
  with CONFIG_VT not being set.

What I would do is download the kernel, initrd, and module rpms from http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel 
install them, and use the .config found in the kernel-source rpm