the wrong kernel!

TomalakBORG · 03-19-2005, 12:59 PM

Hey, I was looking forward to installing 10.1 on my laptop alongside suse 9.2. So, I'm installing it, and it always installs a version of the 2.6.11 kernel. I really need the 2.4 kernel becasue of some hardware issues. Now, slack's site says it's all the 2.4 kernel, with 2.6 as a testing option. Why won't it let me have a 2.4 kernel?

irfanhab · 03-20-2005, 05:48 AM

You can always change your kernel,

download and compile the required 2.4.x kernel,

copy the bzImage file, created as a result of kernel compilation to /boot
make the neccessary lilo.conf entry in case ur using lilo, or grub entry incase ur using grub

If you're using lilo run

lilo

for grub run nothing
just restart and check your kernel version by writing
kernelversion in shell
it should say
2.4

TomalakBORG · 03-20-2005, 12:24 PM

Yeah I did, I was just wondering why they said 2.4 and it came out 2.6. Oh well.

masonm · 03-30-2005, 02:40 PM

That's interesting because I wanted the 2.6.11 kernel and it installed the 2.4.29 kernel.
Which one did you select to install? I use a laptop so selected the "acpi" kernel. Will have to download and compile a 2.6.11 for mine. Would have been nice to have had that choice during install.

DaHammer · 03-30-2005, 03:12 PM

That's very interesting considering Slackware 10.1 doesn't even contain the 2.6.11 kernel at all, it has the 2.6.10 kernel in /testing but not 2.6.11. Slackware-current has the 2.6.11 kernel in /testing, but even with current the default kernel is still 2.4.29 with no install option for installing the 2.6.11 kernel. ie you have to add it after the fact.

Anyway, how did you determine it installed 2.6.11?

TomalakBORG · 03-30-2005, 09:17 PM

At boot, it says the kernel version - and at the login prompt. I also used gkrellm, which displays the kernel version.