Upgrading Fedora kernel

Fajar Priyanto fajarpri at cbn.net.id
Sat Aug 27 11:56:34 UTC 2005


On Saturday 27 August 2005 18:40, Joost Waversveld wrote:
> > jasonrkr at charter.net writes:
> >> Hello.  Does anyone have a good link or white paper on upgrading the
> >> current Fedora kernel to one of the release candidates?
> >
> > Step 1: rpm -i <kernelrpmpackage>
> >
> > Step 2: Reboot.  Select the new kernel from the GRUB menu.
> >
> > That's the only documentation you need.
>
> Be certain you use "rpm -i" and not "rpm -U", so its a new installation of
> the kernel, otherwise he will upgrade your current kernel and you can not
> go back to the old situation in case of any problems...
>
> Good luck,

I'm hesitated. Will it retain all the kernel module from previous kernel?
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