Re: [arch-general] Howto Preserve Current Kernel through Update?

2010-12-13 Thread Ray Rashif
On 13 December 2010 03:17, David C. Rankin wrote: >        I guess what I don't know is whether simply copying the existing files > in the > manner set out below will screw up any hard-coded links to the old kernel file > names. (like any links in the copied System.map26-dcr that still point to t

Re: [arch-general] Howto Preserve Current Kernel through Update?

2010-12-12 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/12/2010 02:51 AM, < wrote:> > On 12 December 2010 11:39, David C. Rankin > wrote: >> On 12/11/2010 09:34 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: >>> mkinitcpio -k 2.6.35-dcr \ >>> -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf \ >>> -g /boot/kernel26-dcr.img >>> >>> mkinitcpio -k 2.6.35-dcr \ >>> -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf \ >>>

Re: [arch-general] Howto Preserve Current Kernel through Update?

2010-12-12 Thread Ray Rashif
On 12 December 2010 11:39, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 12/11/2010 09:34 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: >> mkinitcpio -k 2.6.35-dcr \ >> -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf \ >> -g /boot/kernel26-dcr.img >> >> mkinitcpio -k 2.6.35-dcr \ >> -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf \ >> -g /boot/kernel26-dcr-fallback.img \ >> -S aut

Re: [arch-general] Howto Preserve Current Kernel through Update?

2010-12-11 Thread David C. Rankin
On 12/11/2010 09:34 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > mkinitcpio -k 2.6.35-dcr \ > -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf \ > -g /boot/kernel26-dcr.img > > mkinitcpio -k 2.6.35-dcr \ > -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf \ > -g /boot/kernel26-dcr-fallback.img \ > -S autodetect Of course that should be 2.6.36-dcr -- David C. R

[arch-general] Howto Preserve Current Kernel through Update?

2010-12-11 Thread David C. Rankin
Guys, I want to keep the current kernel while I upgrade to 2.6.36-2 and where I confused is how to use mkinitcpio to do this. What I think I can do to preserve the current kernel as 2.6.36-dcr is: (1) cp -a /lib/modules/2.6.36-ARCH /lib/modules/2.6.36-dcr (2) mkinitcpio -k 2.6.35-dcr \