Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1318 mails)

[Clayton <smaug42@xxxxxxxxx>]

> It is easy to keep a backup kernel. I do it since the initial
> installation.
>
> 1. Go to the boot directory****************************
>
> #cd /boot

[snip a bunch of manual CLI steps]

Try explaining that to a new user.... while you are on the phone to
them... because the computer you are supporting is more than 500km
away.

While the steps outlined may seem "easy" to an experienced user, they
are not easy to a new user, nor are they practical to someone who
doesn't have time to tinker at that level with every kernel update.

Can I do the steps outlined?  Yes, but there is no reason we should
have to resort to a 9 or 10 step process of manually copying kernels
around, doing mkinitrd, and manually editing our grub file.  That is
just silly given that this can be done automatically... and is done
automatically with other Linux distros (well, at least one that I know
of anyway).  That automatic backup of existing kernels got me out of a
bind more than once (machines I do not always have physical or even
ssh access to).

My question was more to try to spark the idea of... why aren't we
doing this automatically? and can we do it?

C.
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