gentoo kernel upgrade problems

[Roger Oberholtzer]

Here is the link to Gentoo upgrade help. It did the trick for me.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/migration-to-2.6.xml

On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 09:02, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> A few weeks ago there was a link mentioned in the Gentoo weekly news
> letter that pointed to an excellent link that listed the steps needed to
> update your 2.4 kernel to 2.6 on Gentoo. It is not just the kernel that
> needs updating. Check the GWL archives (wherever they are). If that
> leads to nothing, let me know an I will look for the link. I used it
> when I moved to 2.6.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 00:22, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> > I am trying to upgrade my main desktop.  It is gentoo kernel 2.4.20-xfs (yeah, 
> > I know, not real great).  I did an emerge and got the 2.6.9 kernel.  I changed 
> > the '/usr/src/linux' link to point to the new directory and did:
> > 
> > # make mrproper
> > # make xconfig
> > # make
> > # make modules_install
> > 
> > That spit out a vmlinux executable and a System.map that I copied to the /boot 
> > directory.
> > 
> > I setup a grub.conf line that reads:
> > 
> >  >kernel (hd1,2)/boot/vmlinux-2.6.9  root=/dev/hdb3 > /var/log/boot.log
> > 
> > and left System.map as the same name.
> > 
> > When I try to boot, grub reports:
> > 
> >  >Error 13:  invalid or unsupported executable format
> > 
> > What steps am I missing?
> > 
> >      -- Alma
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