On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Brian Mathis wrote: > For the concerns about reboot, reboot the server before doing the > patch, so you can be sure it was the patch that broke it, and not
Hi Brian. Good advice. > something else. Linux kernel updates add the new kernel to the boot > menu and set it as default. If you have a kernel boot issue, you can > easily reboot and use the menu to select the last known working > kernel. One thing to watch here. Some distros clean out old kernels and only leave you with a few. If there are several kernel updates between reboots then the running kernel might actually make its way down the list and get deleted. This is a royal pain. I make sure the boxes never automatically delete a kernel. /boot can easily be made big enough to handle dozens of kernels. Rob -- Email: [email protected] IRC: Solver Web: http://www.practicalsysadmin.com I tried to change the world but they had a no-return policy _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
