Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

2014-08-07 Thread Reco
On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 08:21:14PM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > Kernel modules that are needed for the boot process itself reside in the > > initrd, and he copies that. > > For the *early* boot process. I.e. mounting the root filesystem and not > much else. Indeed. So, considering worst case

Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

2014-08-07 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Reco a écrit : > Hi. > > On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 10:06:46AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: >> Marc Auslander a écrit : >>> >>> I just manually copy the four files in /boot associated with the >>> working kernel. I append -knowngood to get new names. update grup >>> happily makes boot entries for

Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

2014-08-06 Thread Kenneth Jacker
ph> Don't confuse installing a new kernel (3.2 and 3.12 are different ph> kernels, different packages names) and upgrading an installed ph> kernel with a new release (same version, same package name, ph> different package release versions). Upgrading an installed kernel ph> package replac

Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

2014-08-06 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 10:06:46AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Marc Auslander a écrit : > > Andrei POPESCU writes: > > > >> On Sb, 02 aug 14, 12:11:43, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > >>> [ Wheezy; 3.2.0-4-amd64 ] > >>> > >>> I've noticed that when I upgrade a kernel image, the prior one appea

Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

2014-08-06 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Marc Auslander a écrit : > Andrei POPESCU writes: > >> On Sb, 02 aug 14, 12:11:43, Kenneth Jacker wrote: >>> [ Wheezy; 3.2.0-4-amd64 ] >>> >>> I've noticed that when I upgrade a kernel image, the prior one appears >>> to be removed. So, at any time there is only one kernel image in /boot. > >

Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

2014-08-05 Thread Marc Auslander
Andrei POPESCU writes: > On Sb, 02 aug 14, 12:11:43, Kenneth Jacker wrote: >> [ Wheezy; 3.2.0-4-amd64 ] >> >> I've noticed that when I upgrade a kernel image, the prior one appears >> to be removed. So, at any time there is only one kernel image in /boot. > I just manually copy the four files

Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

2014-08-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 02 aug 14, 12:11:43, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > [ Wheezy; 3.2.0-4-amd64 ] > > I've noticed that when I upgrade a kernel image, the prior one appears > to be removed. So, at any time there is only one kernel image in /boot. Let's distinguish between package names and versions. Currently the

Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

2014-08-03 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 03/08/2014 20:32, Lisi Reisz a écrit : On Sunday 03 August 2014 17:10:33 Pascal Hambourg wrote: Don't confuse installing a new kernel (3.2 and 3.12 are different kernels, different packages names) and upgrading an installed kernel with a new release (same version, same package name, differen

Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

2014-08-03 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 3 Aug 2014 19:32:09 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: Hello Lisi, >I have the impression, however, that when other packages are >"upgraded" (moved on to a higher version) the previous package *is* >removed. For the most part, that's true. With kernels though, removing a previous one is considere

Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

2014-08-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 03 August 2014 17:10:33 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 03/08/2014 11:58, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > And on my Debian Wheezy system. I have four kernels, including three > > from Backports: 3.2, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14. I have removed 3.10 and 3.11. I > > originally installed 3.10 from Backports. >

Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

2014-08-03 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 03/08/2014 11:58, Lisi Reisz a écrit : And on my Debian Wheezy system. I have four kernels, including three from Backports: 3.2, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14. I have removed 3.10 and 3.11. I originally installed 3.10 from Backports. Upgrading never seems to remove a kernel and never has. Don't conf

Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

2014-08-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Aug 03, 2014 at 10:58:10AM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 03 August 2014 01:38:56 Chris Bannister wrote: > > Weird. So on these systems there are old packages which haven't been > > removed by the package manager? > > And on my Debian Wheezy system. I have four kernels, including th

Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

2014-08-03 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 03 August 2014 01:38:56 Chris Bannister wrote: > Weird. So on these systems there are old packages which haven't been > removed by the package manager? And on my Debian Wheezy system. I have four kernels, including three from Backports: 3.2, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14. I have removed 3.10 and 3

Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

2014-08-03 Thread Jaikumar Sharma
>I've noticed that when I upgrade a kernel image, the prior one appears >to be removed. So, at any time there is only one kernel image in /boot. As stated by others; certainly old kernel is not removed after upgrade, you might be doing something tricky.. On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 9:41 PM, Kenneth

Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

2014-08-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 12:11:43PM -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > [ Wheezy; 3.2.0-4-amd64 ] > > I've noticed that when I upgrade a kernel image, the prior one appears > to be removed. So, at any time there is only one kernel image in /boot. Updates are different to a new package install. On a n

Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

2014-08-02 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/02/2014 12:11 PM, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > [ Wheezy; 3.2.0-4-amd64 ] > > I've noticed that when I upgrade a kernel image, the prior one > appears to be removed. So, at any time there is only one kernel > image in /boot. That doesn't happen

Re: Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

2014-08-02 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Sat, 02 Aug 2014 12:11:43 -0400 Kenneth Jacker napísal: > [ Wheezy; 3.2.0-4-amd64 ] > > I've noticed that when I upgrade a kernel image, the prior one appears > to be removed. So, at any time there is only one kernel image > in /boot. > > Just in case (unlikely I know) a new kernel

Retaining Older Kernels After Image Update

2014-08-02 Thread Kenneth Jacker
[ Wheezy; 3.2.0-4-amd64 ] I've noticed that when I upgrade a kernel image, the prior one appears to be removed. So, at any time there is only one kernel image in /boot. Just in case (unlikely I know) a new kernel has "problems", I'd like to retain, say, the last three prior images in /boot. Ot