Red HatThis forum is for the discussion of Red Hat Linux.
Notices
Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org, a friendly and active Linux Community.
You are currently viewing LQ as a guest. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Registration is quick, simple and absolutely free. Join our community today!
Note that registered members see fewer ads, and ContentLink is completely disabled once you log in.
If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us. If you need to reset your password, click here.
Having a problem logging in? Please visit this page to clear all LQ-related cookies.
Get a virtual cloud desktop with the Linux distro that you want in less than five minutes with Shells! With over 10 pre-installed distros to choose from, the worry-free installation life is here! Whether you are a digital nomad or just looking for flexibility, Shells can put your Linux machine on the device that you want to use.
Exclusive for LQ members, get up to 45% off per month. Click here for more info.
I updated my RHEL 4 kernel via up2date and rebooted the computer, but I uname still shows the old kernel and the Red Hat Network Alert Notification tool tells me that I need to reboot to make it work. I have rebooted several times, but the new kernel doesn't run. I've been looking through Red Hat docs and everywhere else I can think of, but everything I find says simply to restart. Am I missing something?
I am also beginning to think that this was an ill-advised update. I know up2date is supposed to have preserved the old kernel (and indeed it is the old one that is running) -- at this stage, if I choose to remove the new one from my system and stick with the old one is it is simple matter of running rpm -e on each of the kernel .rpms?
Have you looked at your "/boot/grub/menu.lst" file to see if the new kernel was added? You might also want to run "ls -l /boot" to see if there is more than one set of kernel files.
At this point I think I would prefer to just stick to the kernel that's running. I'll go all the way with the update when I have more time in case I end up breaking the machine. How should I roll back (as it were, since the new kernel never seems to have been fully installed)? Can I just do an rpm -e on the new kernel files?
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing
Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute
content, let us know.