Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1318 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 02:13 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Rajko M. wrote:
> > On Thursday 30 October 2008 06:39:42 pm Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
> > > How can I do Kernel updates but keep the old kernel as an option in
> > > the GRUB menu? I just looked at systems recently updated and in /boot
> > > all the files for the previous kernel are no longer there.
> >
> > For now download kernel and run 'rpm -i <kernel>' , this will not delete 
> > older 
> > kernel. Though, I would check is old kernel still listed in grub boot menu. 
>
>       Yep, it still works like a charm. I downloaded and reinstalled 
> 2.6.25.16 after
> update to 2.6.25.18 to test a graphics issue and I just collected the rpms 
> into
> a single directory like:
>
> 02:08 nirvana/srv/www/download/openSUSE_11.0/x86_64/kernel> ls -1 | grep 16
> kernel-default-2.6.25.16-0.1.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-source-2.6.25.16-0.1.x86_64.rpm
> kernel-syms-2.6.25.16-0.1.x86_64.rpm
>
>       Then installed them with:
>
> rpm -ivh --force kernel*.rpm
>
>       The installed worked just as it should and properly updated
> /boot/grub/menu.lst preserving the 2.6.25.18 kernel entries.
>
> NOTE: Above, the --force option was required due to installing an older 
> kernel.
> As a general rule _never_ _ever_ use the --force option unless you know 
> exactly
> what your are doing. It is the quickest way to thrash your entire rpm 
> database.

  David?  I'm wondering if you're running virtual box and have seen any
problems with it under the new kernel?

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