David Rosenstrauch wrote: > waldek wrote: >> If possible please try to keep at least two kernels. I have two kernels >> installed and _never_ update both at the same time - really convenient >> way to fix things if something goes wrong. > > ? > > I don't see personally why you'd ever need that. If a kernel is borked, > you've either got 1 of 2 situations: > > a) Kernel can boot - and run pacman - but is messed up in some other > way. In this situation, just boot into, say, single user mode, and then > use pacman to downgrade to the previous kernel package. > > b) Kernel can't boot or can boot but can't run pacman. You can keep an > Arch live CD around for this situation. The live CD would have pacman > installed on it, right? So couldn't you just use that to downgrade your > system to the previous kernel?
Let me explain then, I thought it was obvious :-) How does it compare to booting another kernel and downgrading the broken one? I don't even want to mention my dell notebook with external cd drive I can never find. IMO having two kernels is a quite clean solution but as I said that's my oppinion. I don't even want to mention finding out if some other problems are kernel related. waldek _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
