How to downgrade kernel?

[dierre]

Hello!

I'm running ubuntu 5.04 and trying to make heartbeat work but I'm havin a lot of problems.

I've heard that downgrading to kernel version 2.4.x or 2.6.8/9 could help and I would like to try that... Unfortunately I cannot find any kernel image of such version. I've looked on packages.ubuntu.com and searched packeges.ubuntu.com but I cannot find anything suitable.

Am I doing something wrong or really there isn't anything like that? The latter sounds quite strange to me...

Thank you for your help!

Francesco

[dierre]

I shall answer myself: ;-)

On packages.ubuntu.com do a search for linux-image (or 2.6.8 or something similar) and *don't forget to select "any distribution" *

Enjoy your day,

F.

[trainrabbit]

Instead of compiling it yourself and have to build a god forsaken config file for the compilation, you can install a linux-image package from the repositories. If you do a quick
sudo aptitude search linux-image

You can see the fine result:

p linux-image-2.6.25-2-386 – Linux kernel image for version 2.6.25 on i386

so if you install the package with

sudo aptitude install linux-image-2.6.25-2-386

You’re all set. The kernel will be automatically added to your grub menu.

[garvinrick4]

This is one old, old thread!!