On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 16:35 -0400, Richard Creighton wrote:
> Kenneth Schneider wrote:
> >
> > You might want to re-check this. I just upgraded to the new kernel and
> > it deleted the old one. The link to the "old kernel" actually points to
> > the new one. The new one just uses the full name instead of the link.
> >
> >
> That is very strange...I have both the new kernel and the old .31 kernel
> in /boot and my /grub menu.1st had 4 entries, 2 of which pointed to the
> new kernel and 2 pointed to the old .31 kernel. I am not aware that I
> did anything special. OK, strike number 2 above unless you get some
> voodoo witchcraft luck working. At least the controller driver, and I
> discovered, VMWare love the new kernel, as does my MB which had been
> resisting all efforts to be tamed. Every kernel so far had something
> that broke something until now. I'll try and see if I accidentally did
> something to keep my old kernel, but I rebooted with .31 before I
> answered this to ensure it still was really there, and it did and just
> to be sure, I am back on the new kernel. Even the /lib entries for the
> .31 kernel are intact....go figure. Maybe one of the openSuSE kernel
> guys will pipe in and tell us if this was a fluke or was by design.
>
I don't doubt you at all, it could be something I did.
This is the contents of /boot:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 842872 2007-10-08 07:46 System.map-2.6.22.9-0.4-default
-rw------- 1 root root 512 2007-10-06 18:13 backup_mbr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 2007-10-06 16:33 boot -> .
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80417 2007-10-08 07:50 config-2.6.22.9-0.4-default
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2007-10-11 10:04 grub
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 2007-10-11 10:04 initrd ->
initrd-2.6.22.9-0.4-default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4315748 2007-10-11 10:04 initrd-2.6.22.9-0.4-default
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 2007-10-06 16:19 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 389120 2007-10-10 23:58 message
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 138182 2007-10-08 08:29
symsets-2.6.22.9-0.4-bigsmp.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100801 2007-10-08 08:16
symsets-2.6.22.9-0.4-debug.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 138222 2007-10-08 07:52
symsets-2.6.22.9-0.4-default.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136527 2007-10-08 08:23 symsets-2.6.22.9-0.4-xen.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136574 2007-10-08 08:25
symsets-2.6.22.9-0.4-xenpae.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 400506 2007-10-08 07:52 symtypes-2.6.22.9-0.4-default.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 116261 2007-10-08 07:51 symvers-2.6.22.9-0.4-default.gz
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2147342 2007-10-08 07:50 vmlinux-2.6.22.9-0.4-default.gz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2007-10-11 10:04 vmlinuz ->
vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-0.4-default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1593788 2007-10-08 07:46 vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-0.4-default
You can see that the only kernel I have is 2.6.22.9-0.4
and my menu.lst file contains:
# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Thu Oct 11 10:04:43 EDT 2007
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,0)/message
##YaST - activate
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.9-0.4
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-0.4-default
root=/dev/disk/by-id/cciss-3600508b100104b44414f365744360006-part3 vga=0x31a
resume=/dev/mapper/lsi_jhicccaiaa_part2 splash=silent showopts
initrd /initrd-2.6.22.9-0.4-default
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.9-0.4
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-0.4-default
root=/dev/disk/by-id/cciss-3600508b100104b44414f365744360006-part3 vga=normal
showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /initrd-2.6.22.9-0.4-default
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 10.3
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz
root=/dev/disk/by-id/cciss-3600508b100104b44414f365744360006-part3 vga=0x31a
resume=/dev/mapper/lsi_jhicccaiaa_part2 splash=silent showopts
initrd /initrd
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
title Floppy
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader (fd0)+1
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.3
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz
root=/dev/disk/by-id/cciss-3600508b100104b44414f365744360006-part3 vga=normal
showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /initrd
The entry for openSUSE 10.3 (the old one) points to the vmlinuz entry
which is nothing more a link to vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-0.4-default.
Go figure. I could go and install the original kernel along side the
latest and have both, but since I'm not having problems with the latest
I'll let it go for now.
--
Ken Schneider
UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
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