On 05/07/14 20:29, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
- Basil Chupin <blchupin@iinet.net.au> [07-05-14 05:46]: [...]
The kernel I use comes not from the oS update repo but from the ../Kernel:/stable/standard/ repo, and the first thing I do when I first boot the computer in the morning is to do 'zypper refresh', 'zypper patch', 'zypper up' - so YaST doesn't ever come into the picture. If a new kernel is downloaded I then do 'grub2-mkconfig....' followed by recompiling the nVidia driver to suit the new kernel. I also use zypper rather than yast for software/kernel updates, but I fail to understand the need to "grub2-mkconfig" as zypper performs that task, iiuc???
I have six operating systems installed and use a bootloader (sda1 which I mount in /mnt/btldr) which produces the grub menu from which I boot the appropriate system I need. At the moment it is either 13.1 or Windows 7 Professional - and as soon as I get this 13.2 and Factory thing worked out (it's now being tested on the laptop) it will replace oS 12.3 Tumbleweed. With the above, when I install a new kernel I: * first make backups of the '/mnt/btldr' and the 'boot' directories; * then edit '/boot' to delete any old kernels, leaving the latest in place; * run 'grub2-mkconfig......' firstly against '/boot' followed by running it against '/mnt/btldr/......' (after mounting the latter of course); * reboot the system into level 3 where I then compile the nVidia driver; * then reboot into 13.1 with the latest kernel (with the nVidia driver compiled for it). Following this procedure I then always know where a problem may have arisen should things go wrong - in other words, I have a "level playing field" so to speak :-) . For example, when one runs 'grub2-mkconfig...." while being booted in another oS version, let's say 12.2, then the first entry in the boot grub menu will be 12.2 and not 13.1. But mainly I do what I do is because I manually delete the old kernels after I found at one time around 6 of them sitting in '/boot' taking up ~49MB each - and so I now zap them manually. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.13.2 & kernel 3.15.3-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org