Mike Leone on 2 Aug 2007 22:55:35 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Upgrading Debian testing from kernel 2.4 to 2.6


Stephen Gran wrote:
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 08:38:29PM -0400, Mike Leone said:
Hopefully, when I reboot, and choose the new 2.6 kernel, it'll boot. If not, hopefully it will boot it the (running) 2.4.27. Will it, do you think?

So long as you haven't messed with the running kernel or it's initrd, you should be able to boot back into the running kernel and be no worse off.

Don't think I've done anything to the running kernel, or removed any initrd packages ...



For building a kernel with make-kpkg and so on: http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html

I'm old school. :-) Downloaded the kernel source; did a make menuconfig; then make clean; make modules; make modules_install; make install. Edit grub boot menu; grub-update. Cross fingers; reboot. :-)


Since this is my mail server, I'll either be back on the list later tonight, or re-sub from a gmail address ...

(then again, I probably should try the kernel-pkg route ....)

Thanks


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