SME8 stick to kernel version
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The final SME8 ships with kernel 2.6.18-308.4.1.el5. Newer kernel versions become available through updates regularly, but you may want to stick a certain kernel version. Sometimes kernel version speed ahead of RPM packages not being compatible yet with the latest kernel version.
Here is a little simple script that will update to a certain kernel version (kernel 2.6.18-308.16.1.el5 in this example) from vanilla SME8, and will disable future kernel upgrades until you decide otherwise:
#!/bin/sh clear echo Upgrading and fixing to kernel-2.6.18-308.16.1.el5… yum -y install kernel-2.6.18-308.16.1.el5 touch 10main_nokernel echo exclude=kernel* > 10main_nokernel mv 10main_nokernel /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/yum.conf/ expand-template /etc/yum.conf yum -y update yum -y remove kernel-2.6.18-308.4.1.el5 yum clean all signal-event post-upgrade; signal-event reboot
From the command prompt:
1. nano update-kernel.sh
2. copy and paste the above script, save
3. chmod 755 update-kernel.sh
4. run the script by: './update-kernel'
