On Montag, 15. Oktober 2007, Mark Shields wrote:
> On 10/14/07, Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> wrote:
> > On Sonntag, 14. Oktober 2007, Mark Shields wrote:
> > > And no, you don't need it.  Writing and maintaining your own menu.lst (
> > > grub.conf) works just fine.
> >
> > well, I have a 'vmlinuz' entry and a 'vmlinuz.old' entry. Since make
> > install
> > creates the proper symlinks there is no grub.conf/menu.lst editing
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> Of course, those are symlinks.  Specifying the actual kernel rather than a
> symlink ensures you're always booting from the correct kernel.  I have one
> entry in grub.conf pointing to /vmlinuz , the others point to specific
> kernels.

you can always type the name of the 'correct' kernel in the boot-commandline. 
So even if vmlinuz is not the 'correct' one you don't need other kernels in 
grub.conf. Boot, set the symlink, problem solved.
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