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Re: kernel-image with the same version



Hi,
	To recap:
 a) potato install installed 2.2.17. You now want a new kernel
 b) You moved /lib/modules/2.2.17 to 2.2.17-old
 c) you installed your own version of 2.2.17
 d) You now have one /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17, and both /vmlinuz and
    /vmlinuz.old link to it.
 
	There is o real way of avoiding this. Even if you moved
 /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17  to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17.old, that kernel may
 not be bootable after step (c) since it shall continue to look for
 its modules in /lib/modules/2.2.17 (which are totally different set
 of modules).

	In these situations I download and create a 2.2.16 version,
 test and ensure that works, and then install my 2.2.17 version. I
 know this is suboptimal, but until we can tell a kernel-image at boot
 time where to find it's modules, that's the best we can do.

	manoj
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