Michael Schwendt writes: > 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. (wiping the egg off my face...) I just looked at my older kernel update scripts, and indeed, I used -ivh, *NOT* -Fvh as I did most recently. How did I miss that? So should I just go ahead an reinstall the 2.4.20-27.9 kernel again over the old attemp, only using -ivh this time? That seems reasonable to me. That -F just might have kept me from installing a file that I needed... -- -------- "And there came a writing to him from Elijah" [2Ch 21:12] -------- R. J. Brown III rj@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.elilabs.com/~rj voice 859 567-7311 Elijah Laboratories Inc. P. O. Box 166, Warsaw KY 41095 fax 859 567-7311 ----- M o d e l i n g t h e M e t h o d s o f t h e M i n d ------ -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
