2006/3/25, Don Russell <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > antonio montagnani wrote: > > I find that disinsallation of old kernels during upgrade from > > FC4-to-FC5 is a funny decision: I wonder what happens if for any > > reason you cannot boot with new kernel. > > And I do not agree with such a decision: any technical reason??? > > -- > > Antonio Montagnani > > Skype : antoniomontag > > > > If you go through the upgrade from FC4->5 and things don't work, I doubt > you could "simply" boot one of the old kernels. > > So much other stuff changed, I would think it is all a "package deal". > Actually, I thought it was nice that the loader update (which was > optional) cleans house like that. > > Don > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > just an example... I have an USB external disk but my laptop is not booting off the USB disk (I suppose a BIOS bug), so I use a boot CD at start-up. During upgrade from FC3 to FC4 I fired up the PC with the old kernel by using CD, I tuned FC4 initrd file by creating a ner initrd file, I burned a new boot CD and I restarted the machine. Same with upgrading from FC4 to FC5, but I had to copy vmlinux, /lib/modules from a working machine and I could re-start the machine with the old boot CD: and again creating a initrd, burning a boot CD. -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag
