new kernel with dpkg -i
 

howdie,

I would like to install a newer kernel "the debian way", as it seems to be called. I read the "very verbose howto" :study: (http://ftp.sun.ac.za/ftp/linux/docs/...ianKernel.html). Eeverything seems logical to me (it is the debian-easy way I guess).

Finally what needs to be done is dpkg -i MyCuteLittleKernel.deb
this will install the kernel and also make changes to lilo so that I can boot my new kernel. Could someone tell me what sort of changes are being made to the lilo bootloader? or where I find this information...
Suppose something goes wrong and I want to return to my old kernel. I have to change things again in lilo? Or is there automatically a choice in the lilo menu between old and new kernel?

thanks for your time

Just go ahead and make sure that prompt is uncommented. The dpkg -i customkernel.deb will rotate the symlinks in / and have it point to the new one. This doesn't reboot your system though, so after it's done, just take a quick look-see at lilo.conf and make sure it is what you want. Then rerun lilo -v to be sure your multiple kernels are seen.

Good luck!

thanks for your help!

I'll give it a try tomorrow :-)

yipie... my 2.4.23 kernel is working
ok I first screwed up lilo and had to boot from a gentoo cdrom to get things running again (I am one of those stupid people that does not create boot floppies), after fixing lilo everything worked fine except the network interfaces (dhcp wouldn't start.. something with CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER), but it's fixed!

now waiting for the 2.6 to become stable :-)

Yes, for dhclient, those must be enabled. I always forget them too. Nothing a quick make menuconfig and recompile can't fix though.