How to update RHEL 5 kernel to 2.6.22
 

Hi,

RHEL 5 has 2.6.18 kernel as default and I want to update it to 2.6.2x.
How can I do this ??? I prefer to get rpm packages not tarballs. RHN has only 2.6.18 kernel.

Red Hat typically backports the updates, security fixes and other enhancements to the kernels they release, do not let the version number be your only guide. It is a bit like comparing red apples to green apples, see;

http://www.redhat.com/security/updat...g/?sc_cid=3093

With that said one can use the updated kernels from Fedora Core 6;

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...ore/updates/6/

Get the list of your installed kernel packages; rpm -qa --qf="%{n}-%{v}-%{r}.%{arch}n" 'kernel*'
Download the matching updated kernel rpm packages and install them; rpm -ivh kernel*.rpm

Procedure to update Kernel in RHEL5
 

Here are the steps to upgrade kernel on RHEL5

• Check the current kernel version using 'uname -r'
  
• Get the desired kernel rpm for RHEL5.
  
• Update the kernel using command 'rpm -Uvh <Kernel RPM>'
  
• Reboot the system
  
• Ensure that Linux is booted with upgraded kernel by re-executing the command 'uname -r'
  

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