Re: [PLUG] Restoring system to a state before update - grub and btrfs snapshots

2019-02-06 Thread Ben Koenig
I used to do this with LILO in the old days. You could load several kernels into your MBR, and I usually had a spare "recovery" kernel in there that I knew worked as a secondary boot option. When updating on Slackware the last step is to run /sbin/lilo which would update my default entry. With

[PLUG] Restoring system to a state before update - grub and btrfs snapshots

2019-02-06 Thread tomas . kuchta . lists
This is losely related to: Subject: Re: [PLUG] Fixiing Slackware upgrade mistake No idea about Slackware ... Old kernel versions through GRUB: - Bunch of distributions (openSuSE, Ubuntu, Fedora) can boot out of previous kernel version as long as you do not