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Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:02:09 -0600
From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move?
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Steven Lembark wrote:
>> But that would only allow you to have two kernels laying around.  Right
>> now I have these:
>>
>> root@smoker / # ls /boot/bzImage-2*
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2355440 Jan 31 18:52 /boot/bzImage-2-28-r8-1
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2460088 Jan  2 20:13 /boot/bzImage-2.6.23-r8-7
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2288336 Dec 30 07:49 /boot/bzImage-2.6.27-r7-1
>>     
>
> In the general config you can add a suffix. I
> use a two-letter extension that goes up with each
> installed version on the specific machine (never
> reached past 26**2 but I could go to three letters).
>
> That leaves you with bzImage-2.6.27.aa, bzImage-2.6.27.ab,
> bzImage-2.6.28.ac, etc. At that point you can either put
> them all into your menu.lst or just hack the command line
> in grub to get an older kernel.
>
> Q: How often do you really need to go back more than one
>    kernel?
>
> If you have one especially clean, stable kernel for
> disaster recovery just name it "stable" and have
> two hard-wired entries for the vmlinuz and 'stable'.
>
>   

Oh but you should see me when I am testing stuff.  I can have 15 kernels
in there.  I have gotten better lately tho. 

Dale

:-)  :-)