On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:36:44PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 06:32:42PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: > > On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 03:47:28PM -0700, kruton wrote: > > > Debian Unstable, running 2.6.16-1-486 on i386 > > > platform. > > > > > > These days I get the following message from Debian > > > Configuration when I 'apt-get upgrade'.. Any idea why > > > its trying to install the same kernel image... > > <snip standard debconf message> > > > > It's updating the kernel image. Often due to security/usability fixes. > > It's not trying to do anything nasty, it's fairly standard, especially > > on unstable. You will, however, probably want to reboot soon as the > > linux-image-<foo> packages are built with a lot of things as > > modules, and you may not be able to load modules without rebooting. > > But if you use lilo, you had better make sure it gets rerun before you > reboot, else the system will try to boot from where the old kernel was, > and is no longer. > > I don't know what you have to do if you use grub.
If you installed the system with grub it puts in post-install hooks to run update-grub. (at least the etch installers post-february 2006 do, I don't know about earlier) I'm not sure how to put those hooks in if you didn't install with grub. At any rate, I think all it does is rub 'update-grub', so if nothing happens automatically that should do it. Also, I think grub knows about filesystems and looks for the kernel that way, so if the name of the kernel hasn't changed even that may be unnecessary. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Generated by Signify v1.14. For this and more, visit http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]