[ILUG] What issues are there with dropping a 2.6 kernel into a 2.4 system?

[Conor Wynne]

On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 18:37, Braun Brelin wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I have a RedHat 8 box with a 2.4.20 kernel.  This particular kernel is
> causing resource starvation (the kscand issue with the bigmem kernel).  

Eh, upgrade it so. 2.4.25 is the latest in rpm format AFAIR
Check it www.redhat.com/errata

> 
> Is there any issue with compiling the latest 2.6 kernel and dropping it
> in?  I.e. are there any glibc or other critical dependencies that would
> prevent me from doing this?

Will be grand. You can even get it (and all dependencies) in rpm format
here: http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.6/RPMS.kernel/

2.6.5 currently. 

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Braun Brelin
> 

Conor.