14 May
2015
14 May
'15
9:53 p.m.
On Thu May 14 2015 14:24:55 Dan Youngquist wrote:
One pet peeve I have with Debian is the (as far as I
know) inability to
have more than one version of kernel installed at a time, so you can choose
an older version at boot time.
FWIW Debian does permit multiple kernels. The first three packages here are
actual kernels and the last is a meta-package to ensure that the main kernel
is updated when needed.
# dpkg -l | grep linux-image
ii linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-48squeeze6 i386
Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs
ii linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae 3.2.68-1+deb7u1 i386
Linux 3.2 for modern PCs
ii linux-image-3.2.46 3.2.46-1 i386
Linux kernel, version 3.2.46
ii linux-image-686-pae 3.2+46 i386
Linux for modern PCs (meta-package)
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--Mike