<quote who="Seth Arnold"> u> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 06:44:34PM -0800, Venkat Raghu wrote: u> > 3) If my new kernel image is not good enough for my u> > machine to come up, then what is the method to tell u> > linux machine to use some backup image incase... u> u> This depends on how badly you screwed up the kernel. :) If you just made u> little mistakes, grub or lilo will be able to keep backup kernel images. u> If you made big mistakes and yourr system isn't bootable with different u> kernel images, then you might wish to use a system such as mondo to u> restore your system from backup. Or keep your system changes in CVS or u> something like that. I would recommend that you use user-mode-linux, or some emulator to test your kernel image, so that when there is a kernel panic, the impact won't be that great, and you can simply restart the process to retest your code. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
