Richard Bos wrote:

Op dinsdag 6 januari 2004 22:27, schreef u:

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The reason I ask is that I inadvertently did an apt-get dist-upgrade yesterday that included k_deflt (should have looked a little better)

:-( There was no prompt to do the mk_initrd.

It's done automatically, so you are not asked for it.

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I got a nice surprise when I tried a reboot later and got a kernel panic. I then remembered the apt-get dist-upgrade earlier and remembered I had entries in my sources.list that would have upgraded the kernel. I do want to update it, but the right way (so I can reboot ) ;-)

Which kernel rpm do you use k_deflt k_smp something else k_athlon?

If you do not want apt to upgrade your kernel automatically set the rpm::Hold variable in /etc/apt/apt.conf

RPM { // Hold (do not update) a list with pkgs: // Hold { "k_deflt"; "sane"; }; // Leave list empty to disable

Thanks, Richard. I had read up on that earlier today and it's now in my /etc/apt/apt.conf. I use k_deflt, but I'm assuming it didn't automatically execute 'mk_initrd' as I could boot once I restarted the machine.