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

[Mike Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

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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