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Re: mount USB drive at boot: fsck failure -> kernel upgrade



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On 12/04/07 08:51, Bogart Salzberg wrote:

(For reasons that have been elucidated a million times, please do
*not* top-post.)

> Would you personally use the kernel from "testing" on a production box?

If stable doesn't work...

> Is it really as simple as "apt-get upgrade linux-image" -> restart ->
> done? I've been cautious about using packages from testing, because they
> seem to depend on a lot of other packages from testing and I'm nervous
> about the snowball effect on a box that is supposed to be "stable".

Kernel packages tend to have much fewer dependencies.

> Bogart
> 
> On Dec 3, 2007, at 8:28 PM, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
> On 12/03/07 18:51, Bogart Salzberg wrote:
>>>> Ron,
>>>>
>>>> I'm running the original Etch kernel on this machine, "Linux version
>>>> 2.6.18-4-amd64 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12)".
> 
> Upgrade to the latest kernel.  If for no other reason than you
> shouldn't be running such an old kernel.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

%SYSTEM-F-FISH, my hovercraft is full of eels
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