On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 05:50:35PM -0500, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
(Brion Vibber vibber@aludra.usc.edu):
If we just install the RedHat RPMs it should in theory be fairly painless, but I'm not too familiar with how the red hat boot goodies are set up or how to make it fall back to the previous kernel after the first reboot if the new one doesn't work.
I'm fairly familiar with how to do that (just having done it on my test machine a few times), but it requires a boot floppy or CD (and therefore the 3-hour trip for Jason).
I'm pretty sure if it breaks, you can still select the old kernel from a list (RH uses GRUB, I believe). So, you still have to be there once to boot it to the old kernel, and then you can change the boot configuration. Still, are we really going to want to jump to 2.6 right away after it comes out? 2.4 had quite a bit of teething problems until fairly late in the game.