So sprach Chmouel Boudjnah am Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 01:56:56AM +0200:
> Ok let's troll, why ? installkernel will check like crazy that your
> config is ok to reboot.
I'm not trolling! It's my firm believe that kernel packages should never be
updated by -U after I once was in deep trouble because of that. That's why
I always say to -i kernel packages, so that it is a no brainer to revert to
an old, known to work kernel.
Plainly, I don't trust installkernel enough. I only trust that a kernel is
(somewhat) working, when I'm at least able to boot a new kernel - and even
this may sometimes not be enough if there are bugs in the kernel like the
reiserfs issue, which cannot be detected by installkernel. If an old kernel
is still present, it's easy to go back - how to do this if all you have is
the new, broken kernel?
Alexander Skwar
--
How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english)
Homepage: http://www.digitalprojects.com | http://www.iso-top.de
iso-top.de - Die guenstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen
Uptime: 2 days 12 hours 49 minutes
