Nvidia driver and two kernels

[InTheWoods]

I have two kernels on my system
2.6.27.12 (original)
2.6.28.4

After installing and upgradeing lilo I was able to boot with either kernel and all went well. I recently upgraded my Nvidia driver while running the second kernel. Again all went well. However when I went back to the first kernel the system could not locate the X-server.

This was easily solved by booting into TUI mode and upgrading the Nvidia driver again. This was successful BUT I can no longer boot with the second kernel because it can't find the X-server.

The goal is to get the second kernel running again. I do'nt need the first kernel. Unfortunately there is no TUI mode available to the newer kernel.

Can I go into /boot and edit System.map or config. Or should I go into /etc/lilo.conf and add a TUI boot option so I can update reconfigure my x again. Yet another possibility might be just renaming the new kernel again.

Any thoughts before I leap?

[nightflier]

Try highlighting the boot menu entry of the new kernel, press Tab to edit it, add a 2 at the end.

[uelsk8s]

there is an option for the nvidia driver that just builds the kernel module instead of reinstalling(and removing the other kernel module).

  -K, --kernel-module-only
      Install a kernel module only, and do not uninstall the
      existing driver.  This is intended to be used to install
      kernel modules for additional kernels (in cases where you
      might boot between several different kernels).  To use this
      option, you must already have a driver installed, and the 
      version of the installed driver must match the version of 
      this kernel module.

[InTheWoods]

Try highlighting the boot menu entry of the new kernel, press Tab to edit it, add a 2 at the end.

Thats not what I did but that is cool. I did not know you could do that.

I added a TUI boot option to lilo.conf and downgraded to the 'nv' driver. Now I can boot both kernels.

  -K, --kernel-module-only
      Install a kernel module only, and do not uninstall the
      existing driver.  This is intended to be used to install
      kernel modules for additional kernels (in cases where you
      might boot between several different kernels).  To use this
      option, you must already have a driver installed, and the
      version of the installed driver must match the version of
      this kernel module.

The driver I want to use is NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.22-pkg1.run downloaded from nvidia.

So to run this driver on the newer kernel and still be able to boot into a GUI with both kernels I should run
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.22-pkg1.run -k
Is that correct?

[uelsk8s]

looks like a capitol K to me so it should be
sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.22-pkg1.run -K

[budulay]

I tried the drivers with the -K option and not only did they work properly, now I have my workspaces(CTRL+ALT+F1-F6) back. Before when I installed the drivers with just "sh <driver>" command, they were all blocked by the driver somehow, giving me black screen whenever I tried to switch to them.

oops, never mind that - I think it was the 190.53 driver that fixed that.