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Re: Machine freezes after kernel update

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On 10/09/2015 05:19 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:

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>> In fact, (and in my case) LILO does delete old kernels during the upgrade,
>
> Wow! I really think that is a bug *if* it does. What makes you think
> that is the case?
>

Ok, let me say it this way: That laptop has 2 different flavours of 
kernel, the first one is rt-686-pae while the other is 486, and the 
first one has a 'regular' "Linux" entry within LILO boot menu, while the 
second one was designated as "LinuxOLD" entry. (Btw, that machine was 
gradually upgraded to wheezy 7.9, and started as squeeze 6.0.1a some 2.5 
years ago, so I forgot the initial kernel setup.) Anyway, for a long 
time now there have been only such two kernel options, so I could choose 
in between them. As long as I remember, during every kernel update both 
kernels were updated in the same time so I could test each one 
instantly. I never had any system freezing since the very beginning of 
squeeze. And by looking into the /boot/ directory, I always saw the 
single newest instance of each flavour. I have never seen any older 
version kept there after the update. (Have I missed to look into some 
other folder?)

One more thing that might be interesting: For some traditional reasons 
(say, rather conservative personality), I haven't tried GRUB on that 
machine. In opposite to that, I have a desktop comp running Ubuntu 
(started with 10.04.x LTS and gradually upgraded to 14.04.x LTS) where I 
initially had GRUB for a while. I remember that very soon GRUB menu 
became filled in with a lot of kernel options, and that it kept a dozen 
or more kernels there, so later I decided to install LILO and remove 
GRUB. Interestingly, that Ubuntu still keeps some 7-8 older kernels 
backwards (until I de-install them - I do it maybe once per year because 
I do have a plenty of disk space there). Btw, /boot/grub/ sub-folder is 
still there for unknown reasons, so it might be that some GRUB 'ghost' 
forces it to keep older stuff :-)

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  Re: Machine freezes after kernel update Riley Baird <BM-2cVqnDuYbAU5do2DfJTrN7ZbAJ246S4XiX@bitmessage.ch> - 2015-10-07 09:00 +0200
    Re: Machine freezes after kernel update Miroslav Skoric <skoric@eunet.rs> - 2015-10-07 23:40 +0200
      Re: Machine freezes after kernel update Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2015-10-08 09:10 +0200
        Re: Machine freezes after kernel update Miroslav Skoric <skoric@eunet.rs> - 2015-10-09 06:40 +0200
          Re: Machine freezes after kernel update Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-10-09 17:30 +0200
            Re: Machine freezes after kernel update Miroslav Skoric <skoric@eunet.rs> - 2015-10-10 21:20 +0200
          Re: Machine freezes after kernel update Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2015-10-09 18:10 +0200
            Re: Machine freezes after kernel update Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2015-10-10 08:00 +0200
            Re: Machine freezes after kernel update Miroslav Skoric <skoric@eunet.rs> - 2015-10-10 21:20 +0200
      Re: Machine freezes after kernel update Riley Baird <BM-2cVqnDuYbAU5do2DfJTrN7ZbAJ246S4XiX@bitmessage.ch> - 2015-10-08 11:00 +0200
        Re: Machine freezes after kernel update Miroslav Skoric <skoric@eunet.rs> - 2015-10-09 06:40 +0200
          Re: Machine freezes after kernel update Riley Baird <BM-2cVqnDuYbAU5do2DfJTrN7ZbAJ246S4XiX@bitmessage.ch> - 2015-10-09 11:20 +0200
    Re: Re: Machine freezes after kernel update Piyavkin <piyavkin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-09 21:10 +0200
      Re: Machine freezes after kernel update Riley Baird <BM-2cVqnDuYbAU5do2DfJTrN7ZbAJ246S4XiX@bitmessage.ch> - 2015-10-09 22:30 +0200
        Re: Re: Machine freezes after kernel update Piyavkin <piyavkin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-10 21:00 +0200
      Re: Machine freezes after kernel update Miroslav Skoric <skoric@eunet.rs> - 2015-10-10 21:20 +0200
        Re: Machine freezes after kernel update Piyavkin <piyavkin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-10 21:40 +0200
          Re: Machine freezes after kernel update Miroslav Skoric <skoric@eunet.rs> - 2015-10-11 18:10 +0200
        Re: Machine freezes after kernel update Piyavkin <piyavkin@gmail.com> - 2015-10-10 22:00 +0200

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