Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?
On Wed January 16 2008, Александър Л. Димитров wrote:
> No, the Kernel doesn't depend on those libraries. Evenything you need to
> boot a machine is in /boot and /lib/modules/`uname -r`. From then on, any
> init-process may get called, which will most likely depend on _a lot_ of
> libs, but that's fine. (Actually, you wouldn't even need /lib/modules - if
> it wasn't for Debian's default initrd-policy. Let's not start a flame-war
> over that, I don't like it, but for a distro's stock-kernel it's maybe the
> best solution. But it's why you'll need the kernel's modules, too, when you
> boot.)
>
> Just one side note: never ever upgrade to a new kernel without having an
> old kernel around in case something goes wrong. I've hit _stable revisions_
> that, with the *same* .config, wouldn't boot my machine. And minor
> revisions are even more dangerous - a friend's laptop wouldn't boot with
> anything between .21 and .23 - but is fine with .20 and 24-rc4.
I have a question about this, please.
I have an NVIDIA card, and after some updates I get the black screen of death,
and I have to change my video driver to nv and restart X.
If I reboot into an older kernel, will my nvidia driver work? It never fails,
I need to use the computer for something when that happens, and I don't have
the time right then to rebuild my video driver with the current setup..
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Paul Cartwright
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