On Friday, August 24, 2001 1:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > I can more easily revert back to my old kernel without a .deb, because > the old kernel is still there, ready to be used. Whenever I build a > kernel, I keep the old one around for a while > > Lastly, and most importantly, the resulting .deb did not modify > lilo.conf and re-run lilo at install time, which is, for me, the single > most dangerous and easy-to- forget thing about installing a new kernel. > Without automating that, kernel-package was, in my view, useless. Now, > granted, not everyone uses lilo.
For the kernel packages I have installed via apt, the installation updates the symlink from /vmlinuz to reference the new kernel image in /boot. It modifies the /vmlinuz.old symlink to reference the former kernel. The LILO config doesn't require update since the labels for /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz.old are Linux and LinuxOLD respectively so the boot-with-former-kernel feature comes for free. Regards, -=greg
