"Arnór" == Arnór Kristjánsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Arnór> Hi, I just installed Debian on the xserve I've been
Arnór> battling with for the last few days, foregoing raid support
Arnór> and such. I used "install-power4" which installs the
Arnór> package kernel-image-2.6.8-power4. I want to enable smp in
Arnór> the kernel so I installed kernel-image-2.6.8-power4-smp,
Arnór> ran yabootconfig which didn't ask me what kernel I wanted
Arnór> to use (and I'm assuming it is not its job to do that)
Arnór> which nets me this in /etc/yaboot.conf:
What you did seems correct.
What debian does (on all bootloaders I've used: grub, lilo and yaboot)
is to keep sets of links as the default kernels. The first is
/boot/vmlinux (and /boot/initrd.img) that points to the default
kernel, and then /boot/vmlinux.old (and /boot/initrd.img.old) that
points to the kernel that was the default before the current default
was installed. The boot config files use this convention by default.
When you apt-get a kernel your current kernel will then be pointed to
by /boot/vmlinux.old and the new one by /boot/vmlinux (and so too for
the corresponding initrd images). This way the kernel you just
installed is the default when you reboot.
Basically, if you'd just rebooted you *should* have had the kernel you
just installed (the smp one :-).
The nice thing about this system is it is kind of natural (you get the
kernel you just installed) and it does not require updating files
Cheers!
Shyamal
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