Installing older Kernel (was: Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv-kmdl andlirc-kmdl for 2.6.14-1.1637 missing)

[Korey Fort]

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From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Brad Fuller
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 12:26 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: Installing older Kernel (was: Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv-kmdl
andlirc-kmdl for 2.6.14-1.1637 missing)

 

Brad Fuller wrote: 

Brad Fuller wrote: 

Brad Fuller wrote: 

Darren Coleman wrote: 

This is good advice.
 
I have learnt through previous trial-and-error to stop blindly using "yum
update" to upgrade the kernel until I am sure ivtv-kmdl has been updated for
the new kernel. :)
 
Daz
    

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jos Hoekstra
Sent: 13 November 2005 09:05
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] ivtv-kmdl and lirc-kmdl for 2.6.14-1.1637
missing
 
As usual we should give Axel a bit of time to get everything together,
he 's doing a great job building everything so we don't have to.
Paying back with a bit of patience is the least we can do ;)
 
Regards,
 
Jos
    

Thanks all for replies. 
I honestly didn't know that I was using a kernel that was so new! I was just
going through Jarod's guide.
Ok, what kernel is safe?

BTW, Axel sent this FYI:




--
ivtv is in the repo, but the generated links on the webpage broke since
Nov. 5th. Thanks for reproting! Either add /all/ in the link or use
smart/apt/yum etc.
 
Finally alsa-driver is broken on 2.6.14, too. I'll upload 1.0.10rc3
later today.
 
On the long run I'll try to focus with v4l/ivtv/mythtv bits on RHEL4,
and try to convince Jarod to rebase his guide (although 99% is the
same as FC4). FC4 is upgrading the kernel far too often, including
major upgrades and broken ones, too. And I'd like a more stable
platform for productive systems, including PVRs.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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When I do:
yum list kernel*

There are no other kernel's available but the ones I have installed
(2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 and the old 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
How can I go back a version with yum? (say 1532, seems appropriate?) 

oh... I did try to manually install the 1532 kernel with rpm, but rpm
complained that I had a newer kernel and refused to install.

I don't know about kernels and versions AFA: can you install a kernel with
rpm and then just update grub.conf to pick which one to boot with?  Will all
kernels still be available IF you install them with 'rpm" rather than 'yum'
or 'apt-get'? 

Put another way, does yum and apt-get have some magic of installing multiple
kernels (in their unique dirs) that rpm does not?

Better would be if I could yum install kernel at some older level, but none
seem to be available on the fedora sites. (per my last msg)

thanks for the help,
brad

before you ask, yes, I used rpm -i not -U to install the older kernel rpm

 

 

You could always exclude the kernel's from being updated by yum and build a
custom kernel [ www.kernel.org <http://www.kernel.org/>  ] for your system. 

 

"Let ye without segmentation fault cast the first int!"

Korey Fort 

 

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