Updating the Debian Stable kernel
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Description
Just quick copy/paste guide to upgrading the Debian Stable kernel to a 2.6 one that supports SMP and more tha 900mb of RAM.
Instructions
Apt-get the image
# apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686-smp Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Suggested packages: lilo kernel-doc-2.6.8 kernel-source-2.6.8 Recommended packages: irqbalance The following NEW packages will be installed: kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686-smp 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Need to get 15.4MB of archives. After unpacking 45.0MB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686-smp 2.6.8-16sarge6 [15.4MB] Fetched 15.4MB in 1m31s (169kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686-smp. (Reading database ... 20030 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686-smp (from .../kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686-smp_2.6.8-16sarge6_i386.deb) ... Setting up kernel-image-2.6.8-3-686-smp (2.6.8-16sarge6) ... Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub . Testing for an existing GRUB menu.list file... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst . Searching for splash image... none found, skipping... Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-3-686-smp Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done
Double check the grub config
# nano -w /boot/grub/menu.lst
Things to check is the default like
default 0
this means it will load the first "kernel option"
and check that the first "kernel" option is similar to
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-3-686-smp root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-3-686-smp root=/dev/sda1 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-3-686-smp savedefault boot
Reboot
# shutdown -r now
