Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6 upgrade howto

[Maarten]

On Monday 06 December 2004 19:23, Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 18:47:43 +0100, Maarten <gentoo@××××××××.org> wrote:

> > I think I correctly upgraded 2004.2 to 2004.3 but how do I check that to
> > make sure?
>
> Okay let's divide the questions shall we. There isn't really any
> revision to gentoo. I think you have switched your profile am I right

If that is what I think it is, yes. [Changing some symlink somewhere I forgot]

> >  The machine did not do anything spectacular when I made that change,
> > is that expected behaviour ?
>
> If you were up to date with your local portage tree and recently
> update your installation there is no reason to anything since you
> already up to date. You only switched profile from what I can read.

indeed.  So the kernel is not updated with changing profiles ?
(or at least, not when going from 2004.2 to 2004.3)

> >  Now for the fullfillment of the transition to 2004.3 I need a kernel
> > 2.6, right ?
>
> Not really, AFAIK gentoo hasn't switched to 2.6 by default. If you
> still need to you can run a 2.4 kernel without any problems except you
> will miss some goodies. But, if you aren't confortable with 2.6 or
> even a linux kernel you might want to stick with a 2.4 kernel. It just
> works.

I run linux kernels since 1996, so I should be "comfortable" with them. ;-)
I (wrongly) assumed gentoo-latest-rev used a 2.6 kernel so I was unsure how to 
transistion to 2004.3.  So, that is cleared up now.  
However, I will still want to run with 2.6, definitely.

> >  Can someone point me to the docs that
> > detail that step cause I could not find that very well.
>
> Sure here ya go. It still has that fresh smell from the oven (It has
> been updated recently)
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml
>
> May I suggest you go to www.gentoo.org and look at the left side of
> the navbar to see a big category called Documentation. Check out the
> user docs section it's pretty good.

Of course I did.  In fact I couldn't have installed gentoo without it. :-)
(Those are real fine docs by the way. Kudos!)
Somehow I overlooked that migration document. I guess it's just all too new 
and confusing and overwhelming the first few visits...  My bad.  Thanks!

> > How do I make sure I retain my current kernel as a second boot option if
> > the 2.6 kernel will not boot ?
>
> What boot loader are you using ? Lilo or grub ? Here's my grub.conf
> that you might find useful :

Grub.conf will work.  My question was rather, will one kernel not overwrite 
another (as is sadly the case with a lot of other linux distributions).

One last question:  Do you need to re-run grub-install after changing this 
file or is it 'okay to go'.  (you'll note I come from the lilo world ;-) 

>
> Hopes this will help you out

Yes, I think it did.  Thanks again.

> Jean-Francois

Maarten


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