Steven Lembark wrote: >> But that would only allow you to have two kernels laying around. Right >> now I have these: >> >> r...@smoker / # ls /boot/bzImage-2* >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2355440 Jan 31 18:52 /boot/bzImage-2-28-r8-1 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2460088 Jan 2 20:13 /boot/bzImage-2.6.23-r8-7 >> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2288336 Dec 30 07:49 /boot/bzImage-2.6.27-r7-1 >> > > In the general config you can add a suffix. I > use a two-letter extension that goes up with each > installed version on the specific machine (never > reached past 26**2 but I could go to three letters). > > That leaves you with bzImage-2.6.27.aa, bzImage-2.6.27.ab, > bzImage-2.6.28.ac, etc. At that point you can either put > them all into your menu.lst or just hack the command line > in grub to get an older kernel. > > Q: How often do you really need to go back more than one > kernel? > > If you have one especially clean, stable kernel for > disaster recovery just name it "stable" and have > two hard-wired entries for the vmlinuz and 'stable'. > >
Oh but you should see me when I am testing stuff. I can have 15 kernels in there. I have gotten better lately tho. Dale :-) :-)
