On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 1:28 PM, <maillists0 at gmail.com> wrote: > > I want to upgrade a 5.4 box with the 2.618 kernel to a shiny new 2.6.32 > > kernel. Anyone done it? Is it possible? Are there gotcha's to watch out > for? > > > > Any advice is appreciated. A link to a decent howto would be awesome. > > You did not tell us why you want to run 2.6.32 on CentOS 5.4. I assume > you are aware of backporting and 2.6.18 is not the same as vanilla > kernel 2.6.18. > > Having said that, if you really, really need to run/build such a new > kernel, I advice you read through this CentOS forum thread in its > entirety: > > > https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=23627&forum=37 > > Thanks, Akemi. I really want to try the fs-cache feature to make an nfs caching proxy. It would be a godsend. I was wondering whether the standard "make oldconfig" would work when making a version jump this large. Are my drivers likely to break? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100501/1b55d2cd/attachment-0004.html>