Red Hat 7.1 multiple kernels (fwd)

[gaf at gaf.ne.mediaone.net (Gerald Feldman)]

Carl Hein sent this to me. He's not on the list. 
IMHO, I use SuSE, which has different issues, but I generally rebuild my 
kernels.
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"Carl A. Hein" <chein at tiac.net> wrote:
I had the following problem with RH 7.1

I have two Intel Based Systems at home. I did a fresh install
of RH 7.1 on one system, and an upgrade 7.0 -> 7.1 on the
other. On the second system I was planning to install IP
Masquerade on that system. I discovered that the kernel
that was installed does not support IP Masquerade, while
the kernal on the first does. The files on /boot for both
systems had the same sizes, and there was no indication
of any problems, except that the required proc files were
different.

Not only that, if you try to install one of the kernels in the
kernel series, you end up being unable to boot the system
even with the use of a floppy rescue disk.

Apparently the RH install disk contains several kernels
in the files copied to a temporary install directory, and
the one that gets installed is different depending on what
you had on the previous installation. That kernel may be
different than that selected for a fresh install.

I thought you might pass this on to the blu group.

Carl A. Hein
chein at tiac.net



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