2009/4/29 Odhiambo ワシントン <odhiambo@gmail.com>:
Booting with the old kernel doesn't affect the system at all? Can't the new kernel be recompiled to include the necessary modules from the old one? (Backwards compat). Ok, I am no Linux guy, so I am shooting in the dark.
I'm not an Ubuntu user, but one thing I've never let be done for me by a distro vendor, is a kernel upgrade. Always thought it's a bad idea. I always get "vanilla" source from kernel.org and compile it myself with whatever options I need (and sometimes have to patch it for something in particular). There's always the option of ensuring you keep your old kernel intact in case things don't work out, and edit your boot loader config to allow you to boot either the old or the new kernel. In Alex's case this is all being done automagically by the upgrade, if I'm not wrong. Booting the old kernel simply takes you back where you were before you started messing around with the system :) BR, S