On Wednesday 14 April 2004 16:15, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 15 April 2004 02.06, Josh Berkus wrote:
Anders,
Yes, of course you can. Just grab the 2.4.21-166 rpm from somewhere and "rpm -Uvh --oldpackage" it.
Hmmm. No good. The RPM did not update the /boot directory -- meaning that it wouldn't have booted, had I proceeded.
I beg your pardon? I've installed several dozen suse kernel rpms, and I've never seen one yet that didn't update /boot. Is /boot on a separate partition, and was in mounted when you installed the rpm?
I can guarentee that this does not always work in a downgrade situation as I had the same problem downgrading a kernal after I let YOU upgrade it. (YOU mistakenly installed a Athelon kernal on a SMP machine.) Nothing in /boot was upgraded, and as a consequence the old kernal tried to boot, but was not found.. Big mess. Rescue CD saved the day and I had to forceably install the old kernal again. So don't be so sure this always works untill you've tried a downgrade or two. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen