Saturday, 6 July 2013

Installing New Kernel


  1. You will be given the ftp URL where the kernel is available.
  2. Open that URL in different tab
  3. Note down your current kernel name in PAPER (#uname -r)
  4. Download all the kernel files(kernel-*) using #wget from the given URL i.e. opened in different tab of base m/c
  5. Note: Ideally 2 files will be there inside the kernel directory of the given URL: eg
  6. 1: kernel-<version>.rpm
  7. 2: kernel-firmware-<version>.rpm
  8. write down the new kernel version which is going to be installed in the PAPER
  9. It will be downloaded into the current directory
  10. Install it using #rpm
  11. #rpm -ivh kernrl-* --force     --->may take 2-3 mins to install
  12. Check in file
  13. #vim /boot/grub/grub.conf
  14. <you will see 2 kernels in the kernel/Title section, old & new. For the system to install with new kernel, defaults=0 (zero) , so first one should be the new kernel which is required>
  15. #reboot
  16. To verify press esc and verify your kernel name which is going to boot.
  17. After booting is done, verify the new kernel (#uname -r)

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