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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:20:22
Message-Id: 491B1E58.2040900@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk by Paul Hartman
1 Paul Hartman wrote:
2 >
3 > I have my grub menu set up with 2 kernel choices; one points
4 > to/vmlinuz and the other points to /vmlinuz.old, that way i don't ever
5 > have to edit anything. Comes in handy if the new kernel blows up :)
6 >
7 >
8 >
9
10 I too have two entries. One for the current kernel and one for the old
11 that I know works. I do mine manually tho. I don't do the install
12 thing. I'm assuming you do tho. ;-) Here is a list of my old kernels:
13
14 root@smoker / # ls -al /boot/bzImage-2.6.2*
15 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2437912 2007-12-18 04:25 /boot/bzImage-2.6.23-r3-1
16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2468952 2008-04-29 23:05 /boot/bzImage-2.6.23-r8-5
17 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2456984 2008-07-10 17:11 /boot/bzImage-2.6.23-r8-6
18 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2363676 2008-08-05 22:43 /boot/bzImage-2.6.25-r7-1
19 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2359548 2008-08-12 17:59 /boot/bzImage-2.6.25-r7-2
20 root@smoker / #
21
22 I'm still using the old 23 version. The 25 version makes KDE and my
23 mouse VERY slow. I hadn't had time to figure out why yet.
24
25 Dale
26
27 :-) :-)