[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 07:26:38PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Joris Huizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > > > > > Do you need to reboot after this upgrade? I'm asking because I did the > > > > upgrade on a remote machine with some hardware troubles and I am afraid > > > > to reboot it. > > > > > > > > > > Hmm... if you got a new kernel image you need to restart the machine to > > > use it (untill then it's running with the older version of the kernel) > > > Apart from that there shouldn't be any need to reboot, as I wrote before > > > > > > HTH, > > > > > > Joris > > > > I knew about the services and kernel part, but wasn't sure about libc, > > as it's a pretty important part of a system. BTW, if you upgrade the > > same kernel you are strongly encouraged to reboot ASAP, because of > > module dependencies. > > And if you use lilo to set up bootablility, you'd better run it *before* > you reboot; otherwise it will not be able to find the new kernel. And > the old one will have been replaced, if it's really just a bugfix of the > same kernel version. > > Anybody know about grub in this context?
If the filename doesn't change (of the kernel image) i think neither grub nor lilo need the update. But it doesn't hurt. Unless you changed menu.lst without reading/understanding the instructions inside. 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]
