Re: [Haifux] comment on yesterday's kernel compilation lecture slides

2004-02-04 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:39:39AM +0200, guy keren wrote: On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: Just one, but an important one: when installing a distribution kernel, you never want to do rpm -Uvh /path/to/kernel-source-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm but rather rpm -ivh ... aren't

[Haifux] comment on yesterday's kernel compilation lecture slides

2004-02-03 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
Just one, but an important one: when installing a distribution kernel, you never want to do rpm -Uvh /path/to/kernel-source-2.4.20-8.i386.rpm but rather rpm -ivh ... Because -U (upgrade) will *REMOVE* the old kernel's entry from the bootloader's configuration. If the new kernel is buggy,