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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

 

 

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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

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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)

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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

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