Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 87398
new-kernel-pkg removes kernel when installing new one
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:52:27 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: When installing a new kernel with e.g. 'rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.18-27.8.0', /sbin/new-kernel-pkg removes the old kernel installed on the system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mkinitrd-3.4.28-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -ivh kernel-2.4.18-27.8.0 2. reboot a bit later 3. Actual Results: The old kernel is gone. Expected Results: The two kernel RPMs should be installed at the same time, as before (RH 4.2 - 7.3). Additional info: Lines 75-79 of /sbin/new-kernel-pkg are below. 79 is the offending line for grub; there's a similar one for lilo. title="Red Hat Linux ($version)" /sbin/grubby --add-kernel=$bootPrefix/vmlinuz-$version $INITRD \ --copy-default --title "$title" \ --args="root=$rootdevice" \ --remove-kernel="TITLE=$title" This could really screw things up if the new kernel were broken.
That line out of new-kernel-pkg removes any old kernels from the config title which would have used the exact same title (which is based on the kernel version). Are you sure you used -i instead of -U or -F?
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