On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 12:39:03PM +0000, David Claughton wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty <at> porchlight.ca> writes: > > > > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:47:33PM -0400, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > > > > > > Is there a way to safely update the running kernel 2.4 > > > to 2.6? What to do if the new kernel does not boot? > > > > > > > Yes. > > Before you start, only have one kernel (the working 2.4) installed. > > There should be a symlink from /vmlinuz and /initrd.img to the actual > > kernel and initrd files in /boot. > > > > When you install a new kernel, the existing 2.4 kernel will now be > > symlinked as /vmlinuz.old, ditto initrd. > > > > Hmmm ... > > This sounds slightly different to my experience when I've upgraded the kernel > on Debian. Each time I get a new entry created in my Grub menu and all of > them reference the appropriate files in the /boot directory. The end result > is you can boot using any of the installed kernels at any time. > > The symlinks may very well behave as you describe (I haven't checked), but at > least on my system they aren't used :-)
its a lilo thing. A
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