Lock question

[Robert Martin]

On 1/9/06, Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Help!  I just spent all morning installing FC4 onto my new notebook.  Then I
> installed smart and ran update/upgrade.  It removed the original kernel
> (2.6.11 something) and installed a new one, that won't boot!
>
> I thought this wasn't supposed to happen.
>
> Why did it not keep my old kernel?
>
> How do I prevent this from happening again?
>
one way to make sure this kind of thing can't happen is to copy the
kernel image and the matching modules tree to other names (the smart
routine should leave the kernel image
and modules intact but...) and have a boot.iso (or other panic disc )
handy to rebuild grub/lilo