On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:05:56 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 23:27:07 +0200 > Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I think many from this list recalls the yaird issue which made an > > unbootable initrd. I got "hit" directly :) Though I learned to *always* > > keep a second kernel installed it still counts as a break. > > Good point, and I had forgotten about that little episode... it hit me too. > But I really consider that to be in a different category -- anything that > changes the kernel of your OS is a critical upgrade and requires special > treatment. A kernel change is one of those things I watch for in my > upgrades... I guess my point is that if one is careful and watches what they > do, breakage should be rare or better. And certainly, keeping an old kernel > around is a good idea. The system doesn't "break", you just get an unusable > kernel... nothing to prevent you from falling back to the older one. > > A I've had kernel upgrade in stable. I was using that computer without a monitor at that time (and that was after that episode) so you can imagine I took all precautions I could think of. The upgrade worked without a glitch. That's the difference between stable and unstable! Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
