New Linux kernel upgrade.

[shinystar]

Hi,

I am not very familer with Linux kernel, but to run something I have to upgrade my linux kernel verison from 2.6.24-26 to 2.6.33.2.

Could anyone of you please let me know where should I get above version and how to install it on my Linux machine.

Thanks.

[Kloschüssel]

hi

if your distribution doesnt include it in the repositories, you will have to build it yourself. look for something "build kernel howto".

[reed9]

What do you need to run that requires the 2.6.33 kernel?

I'm guessing you're currently on Ubuntu 8.04 from your current kernel version?

You have a couple of options.
1. There is a kernel ppa available.

2. You can compile your own kernel.

Be careful. Some things might break. You might also consider upgrading to the current LTS release, 10.04.

[Kloschüssel]

You might also consider upgrading to the current LTS release, 10.04.

which is also known as "apt-get dist-upgrade"

[devils casper]

Which version of Ubuntu are you using? If you are using 8.04 then I won't suggest you to upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04. A lot of things have been changed since 8.04 and upgrade will not work fine.

Either go for fresh installation or compile your own kernel. Follow instructions from here for kernel compilation.

[shinystar]

which is also known as "apt-get dist-upgrade"

Yes, I've tried
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install update-manager-core

to upgrade my kernel version.

But got the following error -
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.33.2 (i686)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/195.36.24/build/ for more information.
dpkg: error processing nvidia-current (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-24-generic
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
nvidia-current
Upgrade complete
The upgrade is completed but there were errors during the upgrade
process.


I thought upgrade is complete so, reboot it and now it is not booting and giving error at boot time like -

Kernel panic - not syncing:VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (1,0)

Even I am not able to boot using old kernel.

If I boot using old kernel config from grub menu, It ends with shall mode and asking me a root password for maintainance and showing me a file systems but only on a readonly mode. I can't build the linux kernel from that shall mode.

Could you please help me.

Thanks.

[devils casper]

It looks like UUIDs have been changed. Boot up from LiveCD of any Linux distro and mount / partition. Post the contents of /etc/fstab file and output of fdisk -l command here.