6 Feb
2011
6 Feb
'11
3:01 p.m.
Hi all,
On 24/01/2011 14:27, Andy Smith wrote:
Before you shutdown and boot into the new kernel
you'll want to make
sure that you're still using grub legacy (not grub 2.x). That's
"grub-legacy" package on squeeze. Your grub kopt should look
something like:
# kopt=root=UUID=4bed9b7f-b2af-4bee-9750-9a6d8b12b590 ro console=hvc0
(i.e. get rid of the clocksource=jiffies that you may have had under
lenny)
The kernel you'll want is linux-image-686-bigmem.
Make sure that your /boot/grub/menu.lst is actually going to boot
into the right kernel, You may need to run update-grub.
One issue I ran into (will only affect older VPSes I believe) was:
# update-grub
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
warning: grub-probe can't find drive for /dev/xvda1.
grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/xvda1. Check your
device.map.
the solution to which was posted by Andy here:
http://lists.bitfolk.com/lurker/message/20080529.142153.954fedf4.el.html
namely:
sudo sh -c "echo '(hd0) /dev/xvda' > /boot/grub/device.map && cd
/dev &&
mknod xvda b 202 0"
which did initially sort things out, but since the reboot after
installing the kernel and upgrading udev that no longer seems to fix
things - any suggestions would be great!
Thanks
Joseph