Re: Re: debian linux-image update


On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:53:23PM +0530, Vidyadhar Gadgil wrote:
Recently some kernel update for debian etch appeared, which I duly
installed. In Fedora, when this used to be done, the grub entry would
get automatically updated. But here it does not seem to have happened,
the entry is the same as the original one. apt-get shows both the
linux-images installed. Some searching on the net yielded some
information about a programme called grub-update, but can't find this.


There was recently a kernel security fix. It changed the running
kernel; the kernel version number did not change. Therefore grub's
menu.list will look the same. In general, when a new kernel version is
installed, there will be a new entry in menu.lst.

All your kernels should be in /boot. Are there any there that don't
have matching entries in menu.list?

Doug.

Ok, so that's why menu.lst looks the same. The time stamp was for the
day I updated, so that means it has updated the kernel, right?

The vmlinux file in /boot has date stamp of the day I installed etch,
but the initrd.img file has the date stamp for the update. So everything
is okay, right, and the security fix was nicely applied?

Thanks for the info.
--
Question everything -- Karl Marx


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