hawklord Posted November 14, 2008 Report Share Posted November 14, 2008 i have upgraded my 2008.1 to 2009.0 but i seem to have a little problem, i need to have sun virtualbox working but i need the 2009.0 kernel, can anyone help me change/upgrade my kernel i have p4 3.4 prescott cpu, 1gb ddr4 pc3200 ram and a radeon 9550 256mb ddr graphics card, if it helps there is this output rpm -qa | grep kernel madwifi-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-2mnb-0.9.3.3-5.r3114mdv2008.1 fglrx-kernel-2.6.27.4-desktop586-2mnb-8.522-3mdv2009.0 madwifi-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-0.9.3.3-5.r3114mdv2008.1 madwifi-kernel-desktop586-latest-0.9.4-1.20081106.3.r3835mdv2009.0 nvidia71xx-kernel-desktop586-latest-71.86.06-1.20081106.5mdv2009.0 madwifi-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-0.9.3.3-5.r3114mdv2008.1 unicorn-kernel-desktop586-latest-0.9.3-1.20081031.7mdv2008.1 nvidia71xx-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-71.86.04-4mdv2008.1 nvidia-current-kernel-desktop586-latest-177.70-1.20081106.2.3mdv2009.0 nvidia-current-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-169.12-4mdv2008.1 vboxvfs-kernel-2.6.27.4-desktop586-2mnb-2.0.2-2mdv2009.0 hsfmodem-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-2mnb-7.68.00.07-1mdv2008.1 nvidia-current-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-2mnb-169.12-4mdv2008.1 slmodem-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-2mnb-2.9.11-0.20070813.3mdv2008.1 nvidia96xx-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-96.43.05-4mdv2008.1 nvidia71xx-kernel-2.6.27.4-desktop586-2mnb-71.86.06-5mdv2009.0 kernel-desktop586-2.6.27.4-2mnb-1-1mnb2 nvidia96xx-kernel-desktop586-latest-96.43.07-1.20081106.5mdv2009.0 kernel-desktop586-latest-2.6.27.4-2mnb2 slmodem-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-2.9.11-0.20070813.3mdv2008.1 kernel-desktop586-2.6.24.4-1mnb-1-1mnb1 kernel-desktop586-2.6.24.7-2mnb-1-1mnb1 virtualbox-kernel-desktop586-latest-2.0.2-1.20081106.2mdv2009.0 vboxvfs-kernel-desktop586-latest-2.0.2-1.20081106.2mdv2009.0 nvidia96xx-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-96.43.05-4mdv2008.1 hsfmodem-kernel-desktop586-latest-7.68.00.13-1.20081106.1mdv2009.0 unicorn-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-2mnb-0.9.3-7mdv2008.1 kernel-desktop586-devel-latest-2.6.27.4-2mnb2 hsfmodem-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-7.68.00.07-1mdv2008.1 unicorn-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-0.9.3-7mdv2008.1 hsfmodem-kernel-2.6.27.4-desktop586-2mnb-7.68.00.13-1mdv2009.0 slmodem-kernel-desktop586-latest-2.9.11-1.20081106.0.20080817.1mdv2009.0 fglrx-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-8.471-3mdv2008.1 vboxadd-kernel-2.6.27.4-desktop586-2mnb-2.0.2-2mdv2009.0 fglrx-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-2mnb-8.471-3mdv2008.1 nvidia71xx-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-2mnb-71.86.04-4mdv2008.1 virtualbox-kernel-2.6.27.4-desktop586-2mnb-2.0.2-2mdv2009.0 madwifi-kernel-2.6.27.4-desktop586-2mnb-0.9.4-3.r3835mdv2009.0 kernel-firmware-2.6.27-2mnb2 nvidia-current-kernel-2.6.27.4-desktop586-2mnb-177.70-2.3mdv2009.0 unicorn-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-0.9.3-7mdv2008.1 kernel-headers-2.6.27-4mnb2 kernel-desktop586-2.6.24.7-1mnb-1-1mnb1 nvidia-current-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-169.12-4mdv2008.1 nvidia96xx-kernel-2.6.27.4-desktop586-2mnb-96.43.07-5mdv2009.0 fglrx-kernel-desktop586-latest-8.522-1.20081106.3mdv2009.0 nvidia71xx-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-71.86.04-4mdv2008.1 kernel-desktop586-devel-2.6.27.4-2mnb-1-1mnb2 nvidia96xx-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-2mnb-96.43.05-4mdv2008.1 slmodem-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-2.9.11-0.20070813.3mdv2008.1 vboxadd-kernel-desktop586-latest-2.0.2-1.20081106.2mdv2009.0 slmodem-kernel-2.6.27.4-desktop586-2mnb-2.9.11-0.20080817.1mdv2009.0 hsfmodem-kernel-2.6.24.4-desktop586-1mnb-7.68.00.07-1mdv2008.1 fglrx-kernel-2.6.24.7-desktop586-1mnb-8.471-3mdv2008.1 thanks [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Bergen Posted November 14, 2008 Report Share Posted November 14, 2008 kernel-desktop586-2.6.27.4-2mnb-1-1mnb2 looks like a 2009.0 kernel, can you not boot that? Also you installed from the live CD so you have the desktop586 kernel which only sees 880MBs of your RAM so you should install kernel-desktop-latest which will pull in the latest desktop kernel that will see all your Ram. Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawklord Posted November 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2008 i only have desktop586 2.6.24.4-1mnb and desktop586 2.6.24.7-1mnb as extra boot options in my /grub/menu.lst, i installed 2008.1 from a live cd, but had a lock-up problem so i upgraded via easyurpmi and a terminal and ran the update command after the upgrade, everything else seems to be running ok (apart from no compiz for a while but i changed the driver) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K Bergen Posted November 15, 2008 Report Share Posted November 15, 2008 As I said install kernel-desktop-latest, as root urpmi kernel-desktop-latest That will fix things. Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawklord Posted November 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2008 As I said install kernel-desktop-latest, as root urpmi kernel-desktop-latest ran this and it downloaded the package, it installed ok, i re-booted but still had the same options in my grub screen, same desktop and same info in sysinfo, i tried re-enabling virtualbox (just to check) and got the same message about 'spawning session' then it just hangs and i have to kill it, thanks for your help so far Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawklord Posted November 19, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 problem is now solved i have reluctantly done a fresh install of 2009 one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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