D. Stimits" wrote:
> Don't trust rpm to update the kernel. Run rpm -i on the source rpm, then
> get the tarball out of /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/, do a cp -adpR on
> whatever subdir it is to the usual /usr/src/ location after backing up
> (and completely moving out of the way) any old kernels. Then run make
> menuconfig (or some config) manually before doing the rest. You have to
> select initial ram disk support.
Whoa... at that point, why use RPM? :)
If you want to rebuild the kernel, just install the kernel-source RPM,
and build it from /usr/src/linux-2.4
RPM kernel upgrades have always worked fine for me, just do an "rpm -i"
(as opposed to -U, so you keep your old kernel around for good measure),
then set up lilo to point to the new kernel image.
Red Hat has a page on how to do this at