Re: kernel upgrade message

[hendrik@topoi.pooq.com]

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.

-- hendrik