Re: bigmem kernel

["Marc Auslander" <marcausl@gmail.com>]

Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta <olafrv@gmail.com>
writes:

 >    On 04/03/10
12:16, Marc Auslander wrote:
 >
 >      having
installed the bigmem kernel package, should I then remove the
 >      regular
kernel package?
 >
 >    No.
 >
 >      my concern
is that if I don't, the next update to it will replace
 >      vmlinuz
with the regular kernel.
 >
 >    False, the active
kernel is update instead of second options.
 >
 >      or are
the installers smart enough to avoid that?
 >
 >    No as smart
as you think, but they update the runing kernel version
 >    (first on GRUB).
 > --

 I am confused by this and the
other explainations.

 To be clear - I am only concerned
about the vmlinuz symlink.  I know
 package management works.

 When I installed bigmen, it swung
vmlinuz to the newly installed
 kernel, just as every other kernel
install/update I've done has.

 So what happens if the normal
kernel package is updated.  I fear the
 update would swing vmlinuz to
the latest version of the normal
 kernel.  If this is not going
to happen, what rule would prevent it?

Marc Auslander