On Sunday 17 October 2004 08:15, Marek Pawinski wrote:
First of all i installed Suse on my Hyper Threading machine and the smp kernel was installed. I then upgraded to the latest bug fix kernel with the "rpm -ivh" switch. A few days later that kernel had uninstalled itself.
A kernel cannot uninstall itself. My guess is that apt did that, and if so, that should be logged in /var/log/apt.log. Put the next line in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/apt.conf: RPM::Allow-Duplicated { "^kernel-default$"; }; In the above line, change the name of the kernel package to the one you use! ...
Will i get options on my boot splash screen to choose between kernels ?
No, unless you add them yourself. Look at /boot/grub/menu.lst. There should be an entry that uses vmlinuz and initrd. - Add a copy of that entry, - Add ' (Previous)' to the title - Change 'vmlinuz' to 'vmlinuz.previous' - Change 'initrd' to 'initrd.previous' The symlinks vmlinuz.previous and initrd.previous are being made if a second (or third, or ...) is installed with the -i switch. Cheers, Leen