In your grub.conf make sure you have a -old entry. When you build your new kernel, rename your current one to something like bzImage.old (making sure you are consistent with your naming scheme in grub.conf).
If the new kernel doesn't work for you, reboot, and select the -old kernel from the grub list. Sean On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 01:30, Joshua Banks wrote: > Hello, > > Is it safe to upgrade from 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 to 2.4.22-gentoo-r2? > This is a grey area for me still. I'm slowly gaining experience though. > > Where does one look to find out what has changed from 1 version of > specific kernel sources to the next. I suppose this would also help in > justifying an upgrade. > > I'm alittle sqeemish or apprehensive in upgrading because > 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 has been working fine for the last 4 months without > issue. Last time I upgraded it seemed like a bunch of stuff broke and > had to be remerged. Foomatic, iptables, and some others. I don't know > if this is because I'm a newb but it was very frustrating trying to get > my system, firewall, printing,,, ect.. ect.. in working order again. > > Thanks for any suggestions. > > Joshua Banks > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. > http://photos.yahoo.com/ > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
