Re: Installing new kernel
>>"Bob" == Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net> writes:
>>
>> 2) will it add one more item inthe lilo for the new kernel and so that
>> In can select the older kernel at boot time, in case I want?
Bob> IIRC (I use grub), the older kernel gets labelled something like
Bob> OldLinux, while the new one will be Linux. Grub will show many more
Bob> possibilities if the kernels exist.
Well, firstly, kernel-image packages don't use debconf yet,
since I havent spent the time to grok debconf. Secondly, the image
package _never_ modifies a lilo.conf file -- alll it does is
maipulate symbolic links (nominally /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz.old). If
you mention those links in lilo.conf, the entry pointing to /vmlinuz
shall always refer to the last installed kernel image.
>>
>> 4) do I have to install any other package apart from
>> kernel-image-2.4.19-686? like kernel-header, etc?
Bob> No (some self-compiled programs get the headers from kernel-headers or
Bob> kernel-source, however).
Well, initrd-tools may be important for kernel images that use initrd.
manoj
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