Update kernel via RPM..

[Jeremy Baker]

If you want the old kernel to stay, then you don't do an upgrade.  Next 
time do rpm -ivh and both will be available.

Jeremy Baker

JM wrote:

>On Friday 31 October 2003 10:16, Keith Mastin wrote:
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>>>Which distribution are you using?
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>>>Under Redhat, each (Redhat packaged) kernel version comes as a different
>>>package.  Installing a new kernel version doesn't override the old one.
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>>It shouldn't, as long as you read the docs. :) In short, one doesn't
>>'upgrade the kernel', one creates a new kernel in case the new one doesn't
>>work so you have a fallback option. I've heard of people messing things up
>>by doing rpm -Uvh on a kernel instead of rpm -i.
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>before i was use to updating kernel using up2date... just recently i tried 
>download an rpm from redhat website and tried manually upgrade my kernel..
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>i tried doing an rpm -Uvh hoping the old kernel will still be intact.. after 
>that quick updgrade tried viewing /boot ... hmm the old files are gone.. and 
>grub.conf doesnt have an entry for old kernel..  =(
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>>If the OP is using redhat, he should be able to update the kernel by using
>>up2date.
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>>>~ The old boot files, i.e. /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 will still be there.
>>>~ They can be removed by manually uninstalling that particular kernel
>>>version.
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>>Unless there's space considerations, I would just leave everything in
>>/boot alone. If you're worried about security just umount /boot. It's not
>>needed after the kernel boots.
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