On 01/06/2018 06:58 PM, Rob Hurle wrote:
Hi All, I'm running Stretch and yesterday I did my normal: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade It seemed to install vmlinuz-4.9.0-5-686-pae (and associated config and image files, etc) in place of 4.9.0-4-686-pae versions. Now the system won't boot at all. I have reverted to 4.9.0-4-686-pae and all is well. My questions are: 1. Does anyone else see this? 2. How can I revert without losing my working 4.9.0-4-686-pae system? Can I just change the soft links for initrd.img and vmlinuz at / to point to the 4.9.0-4-686-pae versions instead of the 4.9.0-5-686-pae ones? Will this break something else for a future upgrade? Any help much appreciated. Thank you.
I had a problem with that kernel on first boot, so I booted the old kernel with no problem and then tried the new kernel again to see if I could get a hint at what the problem was and it booted and the desktop started with no problem and again with no problem, go figure..I'm still booting the new kernel(Linux jimmy-1 4.9.0-5-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.65-3+deb9u2 (2018-01-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux) with no problem. So if you have not tried to reboot with the new kernel, maybe cross your fingers and give it another try or two.
Cheers, -- Jimmy Johnson Debian Stretch - KDE Plasma 5.8.6 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda6 Registered Linux User #380263