Re: concurrent installs of previous + current kernels

[Lev Lvovsky <lists2@sonous.com>]

On Feb 1, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> 
>> This is totally understandable for most package installs, however with a
>> kernel, keeping the previous version installed is useful (obviously).
> 
> It's usually not a big deal when the kernel ABI hasn't changed.
> 
> If you have a strong desire to keep every kernel version around, you'll have 
> to go outside the official packages.  From what I understand, the Debian 
> provided tools to build kernel packages can handle this easily, but I've not 
> tried it myself.
> 

Well, currently the only desire I have is to keep the version of the kernel which I currently have installed, as well as whatever debian has available as the "latest".  If I understand, this requires that I build each of these kernels?

I'm assuming also, that I could make copies of the binaries dropped into /boot, upgrade, and tell my boot loader to also reference the "old" files.  This of course assumes that modules and such are compatible in between the different versions (which is dubious).

There has to be a better way...

thanks for your help!
-lev