> Fergal said...
> > The first line of dmesg should give you a clue - it gives you the boot
> > paramaters. BE CAREFUL here though - up2date utterly trashed one of my
> > poweredges by up2date'ing the kernel while I was using grub and left it
> > completely unbootable. It was a week before I did a reboot - and it
> > wasn't until then that I noticed. Even booting off the rescue CD
> > couldn't sort it out. (booting off the debian CD did though <g>)
one would assume that this is why the default config for up2date
excludes kernel updates. Of course, it's the first config change /I/
make to up2date as well, but then I tend to disable the cronjob that
does the updates, and do manual updates instead when I get the email
notifications.
Cheers,
Waider.
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