Install 4.0 on 3.0

Daniel Gimpelevich daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us
Fri Jan 14 18:17:58 MST 2005


The question was about upgrading, not installing from scratch. The
procedure described, with the modifications I outlined, will pull down a
kernel that will work on the majority, but not the totality, of OldWorld
PCI machines.

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:51:21 -0500, Andrew wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 16:21:09 -0500
> Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
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> 
> The stock kernel (2.6.8-1.ydl.7) will NOT boot a OldWorld. 
> It will hang at a mon> prompt shortly after bootloader. The kernel from
>  shiner.info: <http://www.shiner.info/?manuals/ANS-from-3-to-4.html>
> will work just fine as well as the latest kernel from TSS (2.6.9-1.ydl.8).
> Use shiner's kernel to install via anaconda then upgrade via yum. 
> 
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