Stan Glasoe wrote:
On Saturday 03 September 2005 2:37 am, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
Hi.
There is a new kernelupdate on YOU. I'm in doubt if it will do wrong to my running kernel:
uname -a Linux lajka3 2.6.11.4-21.8-default #1 Tue Jul 19 12:42:37 UTC 2005 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Please have a look at:
http://www.urbakken.dk/kernelupdate.png.
Erik Jakobsen
Join the both the SUSE Security (suse-security@suse.com) and the SUSE Security Announce list (suse-security-announce@suse.com). You'll get more details about the updates so you can read through what the changes are. And if you wait a few hours or days you may see if any problems get reported about the newer kernels. Don't forget to reboot after a kernel update.!.!
Ok Stan.
What is your concern anyway? You MUST specify what your concern is so that someone may be able to address it. My crystal ball is still in the repair shop, just never seems to work like I expect it to.
A bit rude I think you are here. I just wanted to know what could happen if I choosed to update. Nothing especially mystery about that, and hope your crystal ball will be back soon again. For my asking it wasn't necessary.
Your running kernel is running. Updating will replace it so that WHEN you reboot you'll be running on the newer kernel. Until you reboot nothing will happen to your current kernel. The newer kernel can't do anything until you actually boot to it. You may always rename or copy your running kernel (currently booted) to something/somewhere else as a fall-back if the new kernel doesn't perform correctly for you, create another grub/lilo entry for it, etc.
I use grub
Stan
Erik