The Friday 2004-09-03 at 17:07 +0100, Dave Howorth wrote:
I brought up a rescue system using my original update boot CD and can see the /boot directory contains the 2.6.5 kernel but I don't see the old one. Does YOU not keep the previous version?
No. Neither it is YOU, but the rpm program itself.
How can I back out the update? Or can I just reinstall the kernel alone from the boot CD?
Right, boot from the rescue system, mount your root and boot partitions somewhere, and reinstall the old kernel using rpm (I'd have to look up the options in rpm's man page, so I leave that to you). Perhaps it is easier chrooting to /mnt first. It is not only the kernel image in /boot that needs replacing, but also the corresponding module tree in /lib/modules: the rpm program will do that for you. If you want a backup of the previous one, you have to do it yourself. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson