Ah, I see. I thought you were talking about using the other disc that came with the machine, the one without the apps. So I had completely the wrong idea of what you meant. Thanks.
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 16:02 +0000, Tony Travis wrote: > Rowan Berkeley wrote: > > But I would have lost all my applications if I had done what Tony > > suggested earlier, here is what he said: > > > > "Did you try my advice of booting the kernel originally supplied by LC? > > [...] > > Hello, Rowan. > > No you wouldn't! > > You can boot different kernels under the same 'distribution' of Linux: > > The kernel is more or less independent of the rest of the distribution. > You can update your 'userland' (i.e. all your applications) but still > run the previous Linux kernel.The modules used by a particular kernel > are stored in a folder under /lib for that particular kernel. if you > list them in reverse order like this, you should see the same list you > get in the GRUB menu at boot-time: > > > ls -rl /lib/modules > > total 12 > > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2009-02-11 12:28 2.6.24-23-generic > > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2008-12-07 15:22 2.6.24-22-generic > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-01-14 10:03 2.6.24-16-generic > > In my case, the oldest kernel is 2.6.24-16-generic. My suggestion was > that you try to boot the Linux kernel that came with the LC product > recovery disks, after having upgraded the rest of the distribution. > > All you have to do is select the kernel at boot time by pressing Esc at > the GRUB prompt (i.e. when you computer boots). Look down the list and > select the oldest kernel at the bottom of the list. Knowing how to do > this might help you solve problems in the future caused by a kernel upgrade. > > Bye, > > Tony. > -- > Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition > and Health, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK > tel +44(0)1224 712751, fax +44(0)1224 716687, http://www.rowett.ac.uk > mailto:[email protected], http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt > -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
