Re: kernel upgrade message
well thanks. That makes things clear.
Btw, I had to re-install my system around end of march
2006. And yes it was installed with grub. So, I guess
that takes care of the rerun issue?
There is a "savedefault" option that can be added to
the grub config file (/boot/grub/menu.lst) after
describing a boot parition. Does this have any
relevance to the point at hand?
The reason why I bring this out is becasue, couple of
weeks back after a regular apt-get
upgrade/dist-upgrade I had to reboot the system, and
grub was complaining that kernel file could not be
found. It would not boot the system at all. With trial
and error I removed the 'savedefault' line from the
menu.lst file and it booted perfectly fine. Whats the
opinion??
--kruton
--- Christopher Nelson <chris@cavein.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:36:44PM -0400,
> hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 06:32:42PM -0700,
> Christopher Nelson wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:47:28PM -0700, kruton
> wrote:
> > > > Debian Unstable, running 2.6.16-1-486 on i386
> > > > platform.
> > > >
> > > > These days I get the following message from
> Debian
> > > > Configuration when I 'apt-get upgrade'.. Any
> idea why
> > > > its trying to install the same kernel image...
> > > <snip standard debconf message>
> > >
> > > It's updating the kernel image. Often due to
> security/usability fixes.
> > > It's not trying to do anything nasty, it's
> fairly standard, especially
> > > on unstable. You will, however, probably want
> to reboot soon as the
> > > linux-image-<foo> packages are built with a lot
> of things as
> > > modules, and you may not be able to load modules
> without rebooting.
> >
> > But if you use lilo, you had better make sure it
> gets rerun before you
> > reboot, else the system will try to boot from
> where the old kernel was,
> > and is no longer.
> >
> > I don't know what you have to do if you use grub.
>
> If you installed the system with grub it puts in
> post-install hooks to
> run update-grub. (at least the etch installers
> post-february 2006 do, I
> don't know about earlier)
>
> I'm not sure how to put those hooks in if you didn't
> install with grub.
> At any rate, I think all it does is rub
> 'update-grub', so if nothing
> happens automatically that should do it.
>
> Also, I think grub knows about filesystems and looks
> for the kernel that
> way, so if the name of the kernel hasn't changed
> even that may be
> unnecessary.
>
> --
> Christopher Nelson -- chris@cavein.org
>
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