On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> I think it does gain something; it is much easier to have multiple
> versions around. If I compile a new 2.1 kernel and find that
> it is not too good (like 2.1.76 seems to have broken sound
> for me so I went back to 2.1.72), I can just reinstall the old
> one with dpkg. I don't need to edit my lilo config, play with
> symlinks in / etc.
If you wrote your lilo config propperly, you did not have to reinstall at all..
Just have multiple bootable configs and one 'default=xxx' (or whatever it
was called), which you change depending on your working kernel... I for one
have ten or fifteen different kernels that I can boot, depending on if the
new one worked or not...
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