Re: Machine freezes after kernel update

From	Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Machine freezes after kernel update
Date	2015-10-10 08:00 +0200
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On 10/9/2015 9:09 AM, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Oct 2015 23:09:36 +0200
> Miroslav Skoric <skoric@eunet.rs> wrote:
>
> Hello Miroslav,
>
>> In fact, (and in my case) LILO does delete old kernels during the
> If that's true, that's a *serious* bug.  LILO (or Grub, come to that)
> should never delete kernels.  I know Grub doesn't but, as I said before,
> I've not used LILO for some years.  Even so, I'd be surprised if it could
> actually _delete_ kernels like that.  Keeping an old, known to work
> kernel is the sensible thing to do.
>
>
I have not used LILO for a long time, but it sounds like it works the 
same as it did way
back when.

LILO configured to point at symbolic links instead of directly at the 
kernel. 2 symlinks for
current kernel 'vmlinuz' and 'initrd' and similar for the previous 
kernel. This way instead
of mucking about with reconfiguring and re-writing stuff in MBR the 
symbolic links just
need to be updated each time.

If a newly installed kernel doesn't work, you should be able to boot the 
previous kernel.
If you then uninstall the package for the kernel that had problems, you 
may have to check
the symlinks to make sure they point to valid stuff and didn't get left 
dangling.

Later, Seeker

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Machine freezes after kernel update Miroslav Skoric <skoric@eunet.rs> - 2015-10-07 07:10 +0200
  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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