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Steven Lembark wrote: |
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>> But that would only allow you to have two kernels laying around. Right |
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>> now I have these: |
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>> root@smoker / # ls /boot/bzImage-2* |
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>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2355440 Jan 31 18:52 /boot/bzImage-2-28-r8-1 |
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>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2460088 Jan 2 20:13 /boot/bzImage-2.6.23-r8-7 |
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>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2288336 Dec 30 07:49 /boot/bzImage-2.6.27-r7-1 |
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> In the general config you can add a suffix. I |
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> use a two-letter extension that goes up with each |
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> installed version on the specific machine (never |
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> reached past 26**2 but I could go to three letters). |
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> That leaves you with bzImage-2.6.27.aa, bzImage-2.6.27.ab, |
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> bzImage-2.6.28.ac, etc. At that point you can either put |
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> them all into your menu.lst or just hack the command line |
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> in grub to get an older kernel. |
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> Q: How often do you really need to go back more than one |
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> kernel? |
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> If you have one especially clean, stable kernel for |
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> disaster recovery just name it "stable" and have |
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> two hard-wired entries for the vmlinuz and 'stable'. |
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Oh but you should see me when I am testing stuff. I can have 15 kernels |
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in there. I have gotten better lately tho. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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