[TriLUG] lesson learned: don't upgrade kernel with rpm -F (or -U)

[Chris Hedemark]

The lesson I learned the hard way about RPM and kernels was back with Red Hat 
6.x where you would upgrade the kernel but some kernel packages would not 
update /etc/lilo.conf but then later ones would, though without running lilo 
first to read the new configuration.  So you would basically end up with an 
unbootable system.

I did an RPM-based kernel upgrade with Red Hat 7.2 and didn't have any 
problems.  I think grub certainly deserves some of the credit there.

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Chris Hedemark
Yonder Way
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