Michael Montagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I use Grub as a bootloader. After making a kernel .deb using > make-kpkg, I'm running dpkg -i.... Near the end you are asked to if > you want to make a boot block. What is this? Is it just an entry in > Grub or LILO? What I'm most concerned about is being able to boot to > my old kernel if I screwed this one up.
I think that's specifically a hook to LILO; I always say "no", and if you're using GRUB, you don't need to reinstall the boot block when you update kernels. You might leave an entry in /boot/grub/grub.conf that boots 'kernel /vmlinuz' and 'initrd /initrd.img', and a second one that does /vmlinuz.old and /initrd.img.old; that way you should, in principle, always be able to boot your current and previous kernels without ever touching your GRUB configuration. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]