[PlanetCCRMA] installing older rt kernel

[francis keyes]

HI Fernando,


On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <
nando at ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 22:26 -0400, francis keyes wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > How do I install older versions of the rt kernel?
> >
> > My current kernel is:  2.6.26.8-1.rt12.2.fc9.ccrma.x86_64.rt
> > I recently upgraded to this and am now finding that my delta-1010 card
> > crakles on all the inputs.  I had no problems with the previous
> > kernel.
>
> Hmmm, the old kernel should still be there, you just need to select it
> when grub starts. Do you remember which kernel was the one that was
> working?


I used to do this, but last week I had a  hard drive fail and had to install
from scratch, the old kernel was of course not installed this time.


>
>
> You can always see which kernels are available with:
>  yum list kernel
> (for the Fedora kernels) or
>  yum list kernel-rt
> (for the Planet CCRMA kernels)


yum list kernel-rt shows only the installed kernel:

kernel-rt.x86_64
2.6.26.8-1.rt12.2.fc9.ccrma

Are the older ones gone?



>
>
> You can install a specific kernel with
>  yum install full_name_of_kernel_as_stated_above
> if it is an older kernel you might need to
>  yum install yum-allowdowngrade
> and add "--allow-downgrade" at the end of the yum install invocation...
>
> -- Fernando
>
>
>
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