Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Vinay Venkataraghavan wrote:
I am interested in knowing how to do is install a
newer version on a kernel while still keeping the old
kernel.
Lets say I currently have Linux kernel v 2.4
and I would like to install Linux kernel v2.6. But I
would like to have it in a multiboot format where grub
gives me both options at boot time and I choose which
one I want to boot into.
This is usually the default.
Just create one boot entry per kernel in your grub config. The config
is most likely in /boot/grub/grub.conf.
On several distributions this is even automated for you when you
install the new kernel.
Bearing in mind that a lot of other things have to change to boot a 2.6
kernel on a 2.4 system. But upgrades within a series are pretty simple.
LILO users will find that there is a 19 kernel limit on the boot table,
which is not present in grub.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
-
: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
