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justin

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From: Philadelphia

Registered: 2007-04-18

Posts: 132

Switching to kernel26ck

I am interested in trying kernel26ck to see if it gives me any sort of performance increase. Is there any good guides on doing so, or can someone give me a quick run through on doing so? I have already ran

# pacman -Sy kernel26ck nvidia-ck

Any help would be appreciated.

mrunion

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From: Jonesborough, TN

Registered: 2007-01-26

Posts: 1,938

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Re: Switching to kernel26ck

It appears according to the front-page news here that the -ck is being discontinued.  I don;t think I'd switch in that case if I were you.

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Matt

"It is very difficult to educate the educated."

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

Posts: 3,108

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Re: Switching to kernel26ck

In general, you just have to edit your boot loader and add a line to boot from your ck kernel.  If you're using grub it'll look exactly like your stock kernel line, but with 'ck' on the end of nearly everything, like this:

title  Arch Linux  [/boot/vmlinuz26ck]
root   (hd0,5)
kernel (hd0,5)/vmlinuz26ck root=/dev/hda8 ro vga=0x317 console=tty1 quiet
initrd /kernel26ck.img

In general, though, be careful about switching to -ck, since it's no longer actively maintained and the kernel that's in the repos now is most likely the last -ck kernel that will ever exist.

silencer

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From: Buenos Aires / Argentina

Registered: 2006-09-01

Posts: 102

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Re: Switching to kernel26ck

I really enjoy kernel26ck, what will happen how? I mean, will be there something similar to kernel26ck?