Kernel

[Paul Fox]

kevin wrote:
 > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>wrote:
 > 
 > > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Kevin Gordon <kgordon420 at gmail.com>
 > > wrote:
 > > > Hi folks:
 > > >
 > > > There is a new kernel displayed for the XO1 when a yum update is done on
 > > a
 > > > vanilla  883 machine.
 > > >
 > > > Being adventurous, I did the yum update kernel separately, then did the
 > > cp -
 > > > ..... instruction from the readme.
 > > >
 > > > uname -a shows the new kernel is running.
 > > >
 > > > However, it looks to me that the old kernel files remain in /boot and the
 > > > .../current ... directories.  Some with '111005' in their name would
 > > appear
 > > > to me to be the old ones and the new ones would be those with '111026' in
 > > > their name
 > > >
 > > > Is there any appreciable advantage to manually removing the old files, or
 > > > conversely is there any disadvantage?
 > >
 > > You should follow the procedure here
 > >
 > > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kernel#Installing_kernel_RPMs
 > >
 > 
 > 
 > I thought I did :-(

yes, your new kernel is running.  you're done.  :-)

 > 
 > I'm just installing onto a jffs2 XO-1, no building, just an install, so I
 > did the basics: an install then the copy.  Did I miss something in the
 > install that left the old files around?  The instructions didn't seem to
 > specify an install command, so I used yum update kernel.  Should I try an
 > rpm command instead?

probably no one has ever added the 'remove the old kernel manually' step
since removing kernels can be fraught with peril, and hey, it's only disk
space.

go ahead and remove the old files, if you're confident.

paul

 > 
 > Thanks
 > 
 > KG
 > 
 > 
 > >
 > > Peter
 > >
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