Re: Upgraded to unstable - lost network connectivity

[Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com>]

Simon Kitching wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 18:24, Paul Scott wrote:
>  
>
> > But did the dist-upgrade upgrade the kernel?  If you had previously 
> > installed a kernel-image it might have been upgraded.
> >    
>
> Sorry, I should have been more explicit. Here's the output of "uname -a"
> on the "bad" version (linefeed in the middle inserted by me):
>  Linux pcsimon 2.4.26-1-686 #1 
>    Sat May 1 18:04:05 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> and here's the output I see after booting into the backed-up
> (pre-upgrade) version of debian. It's identical:
>  Linux pcsimon 2.4.26-1-686 #1 
>    Sat May 1 18:04:05 EST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux
>
>
> I can also confirm that command 
>   diff -r /boot /mnt/hda6/boot
> reports no differences except the tweaks I manually applied to get the
> OS booting on the backup [/mnt/hda6 points to the partition containing
> the "bad" upgraded version].
>
>
> I think that between them, these tests (/boot contents and uname output
> unchanged) demonstrate that the kernel of the good and bad (upgraded)
> systems are identical, right?
>  
Sounds good to me.  Like I said it was just a thought.

Maybe someone more knowledgeable will answer the "why" question.

Have fun,

Paul