[PLUG] Downgrading kernels on Fedora Core 7

[drew wymore]

On Nov 21, 2007 7:40 AM, Ken Stephens <kens at cad2cam.com> wrote:
>
> drew wymore wrote:
> > Well I don't feel so silly for asking now :). I know how to downgrade
> > on slackware and or lilo bootloader based distros but gutsy and core
> > use grub and my grub foo is not so good. One thing I noticed with
> > fedora is that it doiesnt appear they keep legacy repo packages for
> > folks like us who may need to downgrade a package or two. I'm not sure
> > why that is.
> >
> > Anyways if I find out how to do this ill happily pass it along to the list
> >
> > Drew
> >
> > On 11/19/07, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:33:26 -0800
> >> Ken Stephens <kens at cad2cam.com> dijo:
> >>
> >>
> >>> drew wymore wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi All,
> >>>> I was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of a kernel
> >>>> repo that has older Fedora released kernels.
> >>>>
> >>> I would like someone to answer this question.  I have another reason to
> >>> downgrade the kernel.  The last two kernels do not recognize my ATA
> >>> drive.  I am lucky in that my OS is loaded on the SCSI drive.
> >>>
> >> When I upgraded from Edgy to Feisty the new kernel added USB-suspend,
> >> and it broke my USB scanner. The problem is fixed now in the kernel
> >> that Gutsy installs, but at the time I tried to figure out how to
> >> downgrade the kernel. I was told from several sources that I could
> >> probably run Feisty (which I desperately needed for the upgrade to OOo)
> >> on the same kernel as Edgy. Unfortunately, I was never able to follow
> >> the instructions for how to install the older kernel. I no longer need
> >> to know how to do this, but I am still interested in knowing how to use
> >> an older kernel. It would be cool if someone could explain the process.
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> I was hoping for an answer using yum and pointing to some repository.
> What I came up with was installing the kernel from an rpm from
> www.rpmfind.net.  I had to use the "--force" option, because rpm would
> not install it because I had two later versions already installed.
>
> The command I used: sudo rpm -ivh --force
> ftp://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/core/development/i386/os/Fedora/kernel-2.6.21-1.3142.fc7.i686.rpm
>
> Rebooted and got my ATA drive back.
>
> Ken
> CAD 2 CAM
>
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Ken,
Thanks for following up. Looks like that should be the ticket. Not
perfect/graceful as using yum but as long as it works.