Re: Kernel 2.6

From: Nils O. Selåsdal (noselasd_at_frisurf.no)
Date: 10/31/03 

Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 11:07:51 GMT

In article <3fa23d0d$0$29319$edfadb0f@dread15.news.tele.dk>, mtc wrote:
> I've have recently been installing the 2.6 kernel as an rpm downloaded from
> http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/
>
> Today I tried upgrading from 2.6-test7 to 2.6.test9 and received the
> following error..
>
> [root@localhost kernels]# rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.0-0.test9.1.67.i586.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
> kernel = 2.4.20-18.9 is needed by (installed)
> kernel-ntfs-2.4.20-18.9
>
> ...so I tried installed the 'SMP' version
> 'kernel-smp-2.6.0-0.test9.1.67.i586.rpm',
> which installed OK.
>
> Can anybody give me an educated answer as to what the difference is between
> these 2 rpms.?
> What is 'SMP' an abbreviation of.?
Symmetric Multi-Processors
Use it if you have 2 or more processores, or if your CPU does
HyperThreading.
If not, do not use smp kernels.
Your trouble was simple. You upgraded your kernel, a kernel module
(kernel-ntfs-2.4.20-18.9) needed the old kernel though, so it
denyed upgrading to prevent leaving dangeling dependencies.
So, you could have removed kernel-ntfs-2.4.20-18.9 first, then
upgraded the kernel.
Or better, you should NOT have upgraded the kernel, just installed
it , rpm -ivh, not rpm -Uvh. You can have several kernels installed
and you should, incase the new beta you installed didn't work.

The rpm -Uvh kernel-smp-2.6.0-0.test9.1.67.i586.rpm didn't upgrade
anything, since you didn't have an older kernel-smp installed.
It just installed the new kernel-smp.

  

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