Topic: Kernel upgrade

[kam]

Hello, everybody
I am trying to upgrade the kernel of my SME 5.6, following suggestions in
http://www.e-smith.org/bboard//read.php?f=1&i=29007&t=29007, but have a trouble.

Charlie Brady wrote:

> That, on the other hand, is not harmless. Reverse your
> actions. Then as long as lilo.conf is OK, and "/sbin/lilo -v"
> runs without errors, you will be able to reboot and choose
> the new kernel.

I downloaded the last kernel from redhat.com (http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/7.3/en/os/i686/kernel-2.4.20-20.7.i686.rpm)
It failed dependencies on modutils and I installed it (from i386 folder).
The kernel rpm reports the same error messages as mentioned above in this thread. After that I replaced in lilo.conf "2.4.18-5" strings with "2.4.20-20.7" (I don't want dual boot), run lilo, and rebooted. Except failstart of quotas and http-admin, it not found cdrom and tape drive, because I think they point to the old kernel.
I didn't rename any forlder and I didn't install kernel twise. Excuse me, but I don't understant what actions to reverse. Do I need to rename folder of old kernel? Before or after installing the kernel rpm?
Please help. The new kernel is very important because it enables DMA.

Thanks in advance.
Kamelia

[kam]

There is a bug in 2.4.20 kernel, so to get working quota it's need before kernel upgrade install this:  
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/7.3/en/os/i386/quota-3.06-9.7.i386.rpm

moving the /lib/modules/2.4.18-5 into  /lib/modules/2.4.18-5.old
and coping  /lib/modules/2.4.20-20.7 to  /lib/modules/2.4.18-5
work for me


Kamelia

[kam]

to get work Control Panel's Quota management with new kernel
need upgrade perl-Quota:
http://www.quantumlinux.com/~kevin/rpmpan/rpm/perl-Quota-1.4.9-8.i386.rpm