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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org