From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L0KKD-00087Z-Oq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:20:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3674EE0339; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:20:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com (qw-out-1920.google.com [74.125.92.149]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16ED1E0339 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:20:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 5so571614qwc.10 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:20:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mwdiq0/WSZxAWiz6xHM1B+r0a3O7x5VCtaPKW3j+npA=; b=j3jvXAPc6UzlsT5g2PNXAd21YHkEnMO71Vqv/MvV8fGNB2kTq5VbDV/V0S5mnuUJVm SpPfitOA4igEAXw92c/SaZTKQXjOADZPAsciOaC7uXQwR4yIDAdBls+xyanCPAccJwD8 FTwZTKys0XOkyCMBIM2M0Mei334eCwZJIAi6g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=NhpX5YwKowbegRVHWH88jNobnOedsqPhGH8LBZ6KAo0wGm44zRAqG89nIyulKWPqys G1iwHTQSGUxTA8si9xtVHTmE3pjauP8Um17UFEov0VssiFwuIz+x5tw+tDi0Ms8zH9dd 55S/Uw+gVExRG5RrJDKbfLNpi8fwIyrMZEdSM= Received: by 10.214.81.8 with SMTP id e8mr10026716qab.279.1226514018128; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:20:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.231.90.179? (dialup-4.231.90.179.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.90.179]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm3622435qwb.7.2008.11.12.10.20.14 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:20:17 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <491B1E58.2040900@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:20:08 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20081110 SeaMonkey/1.1.12 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk References: <87d4h1pfaz.fsf@newsguy.com> <79e3aefb0811112359l63b077d8k858a146af90c5e23@mail.gmail.com> <20081112145441.GE1188@muc.de> <491B1777.8060505@gmail.com> <58965d8a0811120958k121d4bcraa89441de8c12f27@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0811120958k121d4bcraa89441de8c12f27@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 906d45ad-ec08-453b-b352-d264ad22a390 X-Archives-Hash: 36cf47d447a04e960710388aa786fc87 Paul Hartman wrote: > > I have my grub menu set up with 2 kernel choices; one points > to/vmlinuz and the other points to /vmlinuz.old, that way i don't ever > have to edit anything. Comes in handy if the new kernel blows up :) > > > I too have two entries. One for the current kernel and one for the old that I know works. I do mine manually tho. I don't do the install thing. I'm assuming you do tho. ;-) Here is a list of my old kernels: root@smoker / # ls -al /boot/bzImage-2.6.2* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2437912 2007-12-18 04:25 /boot/bzImage-2.6.23-r3-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2468952 2008-04-29 23:05 /boot/bzImage-2.6.23-r8-5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2456984 2008-07-10 17:11 /boot/bzImage-2.6.23-r8-6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2363676 2008-08-05 22:43 /boot/bzImage-2.6.25-r7-1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2359548 2008-08-12 17:59 /boot/bzImage-2.6.25-r7-2 root@smoker / # I'm still using the old 23 version. The 25 version makes KDE and my mouse VERY slow. I hadn't had time to figure out why yet. Dale :-) :-)