Re: [suse-axp] Installing a new kernel

From: Stefan Reinauer (stepan@suse.de)
Date: Thu Sep 02 1999 - 09:26:32 PDT

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    Date: 2 Sep 1999 18:26:32 +0200
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From: "Stefan Reinauer" <stepan@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [suse-axp] Installing a new kernel

    On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Philipp Flesch wrote:

    > in the manual they talk about an vmlinuz, but I have got the gzipped
    > Verion (??) vmlinux.gz - what do I have to do? ungzip it?

    It's just the same. vmlinux is the uncompressed kernel und vmlinuz or
    vmlinux.gz is the compressed one. But of course, you can call it as you
    want.

    > And how can I use the kernel as second kernel? can I rename the old
    > one in /dos and /boot to vmlinuz_suse and simply make the changes in
    > the ARC-Console? Because you con't boot the System over linuxrc I
    > better ask before ;-)

    When booting the system using milo, you can specify the name of the loaded
    kernel, why don't you just use that function?

    Regards,
            Stefan Reinauer(stepan@suse.de) 

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