On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:39:51PM +0100, ???????????????????? ??. ???????????????? wrote: > Quoth Andre: > > > > I recently moved to Lenny from Etch via dist-upgrade. Now I got two > > kernel options in grub available for boot. Doesn't a dist-upgrade mean > > that the old kernel is quite useless with the new system (with all its > > new libraries and stuff)? If so, how do I get rid off Etch's leftovers? > > No, the Kernel doesn't depend on those libraries. Evenything you need to boot > a > machine is in /boot and /lib/modules/`uname -r`. From then on, any > init-process > may get called, which will most likely depend on _a lot_ of libs, but that's > fine.
There's and advantage to having some kind of static-linked shell (at least). There used to be busybox static and now there's sash. You would start it (and bypass the standard lib-dependant init scripts with a kernel command line that contains: init=/bin/sash Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
