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Re: Partial downgrading



> I use kernel 2.0.27, and I downloaded kernel 2.1.61.. When I tried to
> install it, it gave me some errors when I tried to create the new boot
> image, but part of the kernel is installed. Now I've decided I don't
> want to use 2.1.xx, so I downloaded patches for 2.0.31, and when I try
> to run them, I can't, since my kernel is "2.1.61", even though when I
> boot it says 2.0.27...
> 
> What to do?

Hey, you apply the patches to the source of kernel and not the binary!
Your boot says that the binary vmlinuz is of 2.0.27 (BTW, it's output of
'uname -a' !)

To RTFM -> man patch

If you want to apply a patch to the original you need to get the original
first, so if you want to make a patch to kernel 2.0.30 get it first!!!

I guess I know what's your problem. Be carefull with symbolic link of
/usr/src/linux since it's generally a pointer to the real source like
/usr/src/linux-2.0.30! In your case it might point to 2.1.61 -- check it!

(One more thing, I'm not sure but I think you can apply a patch of 2.0.31
only to the orig 2.0.30. And if you have 2.0.29 you have first to patch it
to 2.0.30 and then to 2.0.31... So in your case 2.0.27 make your counts
what's better: apply 4 patches or download the whole latest kernel)

Hope this helps...

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