On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 07:38:21 -0600 (CST), Robert Brown wrote: > Michael Schwendt writes: > > On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 17:50:52 -0600 (CST), Robert Brown wrote: > > > > > Unfortunately, the 2.4.20-27.9 upgrade, unlike previous rh9 upgrades, > > > took it upon itself to automatically delete all earlier versions of > > > the kernel from the system, so I cannot simply edit > > > /boot/grub/grub.conf to default to the older kernel. > > > > > > I think somebody at Red Hat maybe had a little too much holiday happy > > > juice just before that release was tested... :-< > > > > No. Your mistake. Don't upgrade kernel packages. That will erase older > > kernel packages. Install the new package, so you keep multiple installed > > kernel packages which can co-exist. > > As I also said in my reply to your essentially identical post, I used > -Fvh. Bad choice of the word "update" on my part. I was using it > descriptively, not as the name of a mode of operation of the rpm > program. I have been using -Fvh for all of the kernel "updates" to > rh9, and never had this happen before. -Fvh is -Uvh with the exception that it only upgrades a package if an older version is installed already. On the contrary, -Uvh would install a package if no older version is installed already. Else it would upgrade the older package, i.e. erase it and install the newer one. For kernels you whould have used -ivh. --
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