Fedora and kernel 2.6.0
 

I have been trying for 2 days to get the new kernel up and running. I've tried roling my own for the src on kernel.org, tried installing from rpms and when I reboot it black screens and nothing. Also in /boot there is a broken link to vmlinux --> /usr/lib/debug/blah blah, also looked in /lib/modules/kernel version and ther is no vmlinux there either. If any has successfully gotten a kernel up and runnig on fedora can you document your step for me. Would greatly appreciate it.

I just compiled it from the sources at kernel.org and everything went OK, not to mention that making my ATi card to work with it was a little bit of a mess and I'm struggling to get my ALSA sound up and running (I'm still figuring out where to load the mdoules: was it in modules.conf? or was it in modprobe.conf?). The black screen in my case was due to the use of VGA=xxx in grub, remove that before launching the new kernel. Also you may get an error regarding your root partition (root=LABEL=/ in GRUB) point that to the actual partition (in my case /dev/hda2) instead of the LABEL, do it also in all your partitions on fstab that have LABELs. You must likely are having a VFS error (panic) complaining about not being able to mount the root partition.

I used the following instructions and it worked fine for me, Fedora & 2.6.0 Wiki

except after I installed the 2.6.0 RPMs my USB mouse wasn't working properly, then I went to /etc/modules.conf and changed the following line


alias usb-controller usb-uhci to
alias usb-controller uhci-hcd

Then my mouse was working properly and I have been running Fedora with 2.6.0 since, no problems encountered, except now I can't get the NVIDIA driver to install properly, so I am using the NVIDIA driver that comes with the kernel, just the GL doesn't work as nice.:(

In fact if you want to be able to boot also a 2.4 kernel you may also add to your modules.conf:
note that in the "2.6.0" part you must put exactly what uname -r says is yuor kernel.