Re: [PATCH 2.4] forcedeth

Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-11-08T20:59:36Z

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On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 22:26:08 +0200, Markus =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E4stbacka?= said:

> trust me, it was hard to edit lilo.conf so I even could boot back to old
> kernel when all the numbers just were jumping around)

And this is why you always leave at least one "known working" kernel in your
lilo.conf or grub.conf (I think I've got at least 4 kernels listed right now
that are known to boot and be at least stable enough to build a kernel). Also
good for recovering from broken framebuffer drivers, kernels that hang at boot
before getting very far, and all sorts of other messes.

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