Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1318 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike McMullin wrote:
> 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?

Mike,

        Yes, I have vbox (2.02 and 2.04) running on 11.0 (i586 & x86_64) and 
10.3
(i586 & x86_64) all with the latest kernel and all without a problem. You do
have to recompile the vbox driver. As root, just issue

rcvboxdrv setup && modprobe vboxdrv

        And vbox should run like a champ.

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