Re: How to downgrade kernel?

[Jonathan Melhuish <lists@netacclaim.co.uk>]

Kent West wrote:

> > Anyway, at the expense of being locked to a specific kernel version, 
> > I'd really like to get it working.  So I use apt-get to download the 
> > appropriate kernel, headers and pcmcia-modules.  But how do I 
> > "activate" it?  Presumably I need an initrd image in my boot 
> > partition?  None have been forthcoming.
>
> When you apt-getted the kernel, it should have placed the new kernel 
> and the initrd.img in /boot, created symlink (vmlinuz and initrd) in / 
> that points to them, and then run lilo. When lilo ran, it should have 
> warned you about putting "initrd=/initrd.img" in /etc/lilo.conf.

It should, and indeed it does whenever I upgrade the kernel.  But it
doesn't when you're downgrading the kernel, which is fair enough.
Performing these steps manually got it working.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Cheers,

Jon