[arch-general] Multiple Kernels

Nilesh Govindarajan lists at itech7.com
Tue Feb 2 23:42:15 EST 2010


On 02/03/2010 06:45 AM, Muhammed Uluyol wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan<lists at itech7.com>  wrote:
>>
>> pacman should do what you said. keeping /boot/vmlinuz-<version>  instead of
>> just /boot/vmlinuz
>>
> Then arch will try to load modules for a newer kernel version and that
> WILL fail.
> I doesn't work and isn't difficult to store a limited number of older packages.

Modules are defined in initrd. Each kernel has to have a different 
initrd else the system won't boot.

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