On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 11:53:59PM -0700, Paul G Rogers wrote: > > I guess one approach might be to get all the patch-2.6.11.* files and > unapply them to get back to 2.6.11, then go forward with 2.6.12, et al. > But it might be more dependable to bite the bullet and try the 40MB > download at 40Kbps. (But now I know to keep the 2.6.17 tarball even > after I patch it!) > Not *all* of the stable patches, they each apply to the _base_ kernel, not to the previous stable point release. So, you get back to 2.6.11 from 2.6.11.12 by reverting patch-2.6.11.12.bz2.
I almost replied to Randy's reply - I hate downloading 40MB tarballs unnecessarily, but going from vanilla 2.6.11 to 2.6.17 is going to be about 29MB of patches, so a tarball might be worthwhile. (but go for 2.6.17 plus the patch 2.6.17.6, to make it easier to go forward next time). What you will probably find is that you need to upgrade udev and any custom rules files (syntax is now a lot tighter, == instead of = ). By all means try a current kernel without changing udev - if it boots ok, you're home. If not, upgrade udev, udev-config, and the bootscripts to what is in 6.2-pre. HTH Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
