On Wed, 2003-06-18 at 00:08, der.hans wrote:
> Am 17. Jun, 2003 schwätzte Richard L. Proctor so:
> 
> > > > Good. Red Hat and SuSE uninstall the current kernel, so if the new kernel
> > > > doesn't work you have an unbootable system.
> > >
> > > ----
> > > dunno about SuSE
> > >
> > > RedHat most assuredly doesn't 'uninstall' any kernels - that bungling is
> > > left entirely to the user.
> >
> > SuSE keeps the previous kernel configuration as well.  I have no don't know
> > where they get these ideas.
> 
> I've updated kernels on SuSE and RedHat recently. For both dists the new
> kernel ( different kernel version ) conflicted with the installed kernel and
> wanted the installed kernel removed prior to installing.
> 
> Maybe I was misusing rpm.
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indeed - a little knowledge is very dangerous in this case...

rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.xx-xx

as opposed to 

rpm -Uvh kernel-2.4.xx-xx

-i install creates the new kernel/modules in the correct spot and
updates grub/lilo to reflect the addition...

-U update creams your setup and tries to replace existing kernel/modules
with new and for the most part will render a system unbootable.

Again...this applies to RedHat / dunno about SuSE

Craig