well thanks. That makes things clear. Btw, I had to re-install my system around end of march 2006. And yes it was installed with grub. So, I guess that takes care of the rerun issue?
There is a "savedefault" option that can be added to the grub config file (/boot/grub/menu.lst) after describing a boot parition. Does this have any relevance to the point at hand? The reason why I bring this out is becasue, couple of weeks back after a regular apt-get upgrade/dist-upgrade I had to reboot the system, and grub was complaining that kernel file could not be found. It would not boot the system at all. With trial and error I removed the 'savedefault' line from the menu.lst file and it booted perfectly fine. Whats the opinion?? --kruton --- Christopher Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:36:44PM -0400, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 06:32:42PM -0700, > Christopher Nelson wrote: > > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:47:28PM -0700, kruton > wrote: > > > > Debian Unstable, running 2.6.16-1-486 on i386 > > > > platform. > > > > > > > > These days I get the following message from > Debian > > > > Configuration when I 'apt-get upgrade'.. Any > idea why > > > > its trying to install the same kernel image... > > > <snip standard debconf message> > > > > > > It's updating the kernel image. Often due to > security/usability fixes. > > > It's not trying to do anything nasty, it's > fairly standard, especially > > > on unstable. You will, however, probably want > to reboot soon as the > > > linux-image-<foo> packages are built with a lot > of things as > > > modules, and you may not be able to load modules > without rebooting. > > > > But if you use lilo, you had better make sure it > gets rerun before you > > reboot, else the system will try to boot from > where the old kernel was, > > and is no longer. > > > > I don't know what you have to do if you use grub. > > If you installed the system with grub it puts in > post-install hooks to > run update-grub. (at least the etch installers > post-february 2006 do, I > don't know about earlier) > > I'm not sure how to put those hooks in if you didn't > install with grub. > At any rate, I think all it does is rub > 'update-grub', so if nothing > happens automatically that should do it. > > Also, I think grub knows about filesystems and looks > for the kernel that > way, so if the name of the kernel hasn't changed > even that may be > unnecessary. > > -- > Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Generated by Signify v1.14. For this and more, > visit http://www.debian.org/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
