[solved]What steps are rquired to switch to kernel26-lts?

hume's doona · 2010-12-01 06:36:44

Hi,

I've searched the wiki and forums.

I'm thinking of trying out the long term support kernel as my primary kernel, I've never used an alternate kernel before, so beyond "pacman -S kernel26-lts" I don't know the process of changing kernels.

I use the propriety nvidia driver, so I'm assuming I'll need the lts version from AUR?

is it just a matter of appending a "lts" to the kernel line in grub?

thanks

Last edited by hume's doona (2010-12-01 07:51:00)

yvonney · 2010-12-01 06:57:40

big time on wishing for an answer to this one.

Installed lts though still 2.6.36
and didn't have any weirds like my poor attempt to downgrade to 2.6.35 which threw up isues with other stuff, like nvidia! :-)
obvious user error....so what did I do wrong.

I've heard that a downgrade can perhaps overcome the 2.6.36 weirds some of us are having (laptop)

So.... I simply did a pacman -S kernel26-lts

it went through the full process 'Success' Success'

though doing a
cat /proc/version
OR
uname -a
GOT:
2.6.36-ARCH (tobias@T-POWA-LX) (gcc version 4.5.1 (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 24 06:44:11 UTC 2010
2.6.36-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 24 06:44:11 UTC 2010 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Last edited by yvonney (2010-12-01 07:58:46)

.:B:. · 2010-12-01 07:00:32

Yvonney: open your own topic. Don't hijack other people's topics.

Hume's doona: it's pretty simple - as in, install the kernel, rebuild the nvidia driver (you'll have to get it from the AUR indeed), and reconfigure GRUB accordingly. The official Arch kernel and the LTS kernel can coexist peacefully.

If you need hints on configuring GRUB, the wiki entry is a good place to start.

hume's doona · 2010-12-01 07:41:27

Thanks .:B:. now I'm just having grub issues, I made a separate entry for now to test it:

# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst

# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS 
#
#  Linux           Grub
# -------------------------
#  /dev/fd0        (fd0)
#  /dev/sda        (hd0)
#  /dev/sdb2       (hd1,1)
#  /dev/sda3       (hd0,2)
#

#  FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#          | 640x480    800x600    1024x768   1280x1024
#      ----+--------------------------------------------
#      256 | 0x301=769  0x303=771  0x305=773   0x307=775
#      32K | 0x310=784  0x313=787  0x316=790   0x319=793
#      64K | 0x311=785  0x314=788  0x317=791   0x31A=794
#      16M | 0x312=786  0x315=789  0x318=792   0x31B=795
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#  for more details and different resolutions see
#  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_Resolution 

# general configuration:
timeout   5
default   0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
#
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
#
#-*

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/376cb850-a03d-4cd9-ac75-05bd71c83d41 ro
initrd /kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/376cb850-a03d-4cd9-ac75-05bd71c83d41 ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

# (2) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux lts
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/376cb850-a03d-4cd9-ac75-05bd71c83d41 ro
initrd /kernel26-lts.img



# (2) Windows
#title Windows
#rootnoverify (hd0,0)
#makeactive
#chainloader +1

but attempting tto boot into the lts entry threw me into the rescue shell after waiting 10 seconds for the disk.

All I did was copy entry 0 and append -lts to the kernel line, what more do I need to do?

bangkok_manouel · 2010-12-01 07:48:57

you changed the initrd image name but not the kernel name itself.
kernel /vmlinuz26 <---- this

/edit: for each thing in the world, there is name. and i shall use the proper one.

Last edited by bangkok_manouel (2010-12-01 07:54:34)

hume's doona · 2010-12-01 07:50:07

yeah, I just saw that as I posted it, will mark solved.

thanks

yvonney · 2010-12-01 07:57:36

right, sorry. had no idea I'd done that. will study why/how, and comply. thanks for straight talk.
-- after my post above I did think recall last night I learned that the kernels are swapped via grub enties. doh! more sleep needed.

Last edited by yvonney (2010-12-01 08:00:22)

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[solved]What steps are rquired to switch to kernel26-lts?

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