[Mageia-dev] kernel 3.0 is a big mistake in cauldron

Sat Jul 16 13:29:27 CEST 2011

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+> you still can use the kernel 2.6 which is installed on your machine,
+> installing a newer kernel doesn't uninstall the previous one.
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+yes, I can, but only because I've edited menu.lst _manually_.
+the new kernel added 2 grub entries, at the end, both pointing to the 3.0.0 kernel.
+and the default one (first one) also booted the 3.0.0 kernel.
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+>>  forcing an rc-something as the current kernel is... unbenevolent
+>>  dictatorship.
+> 
+> your message is not that democratic too
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+it is. normally, when an update pushes a totally new kernel, it should make sure GRUB still has an entry with the previous kernel.
+no, not "failsafe" with the latest kernel, but just the previous working kernel.
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+with either of Mageia 1 and Mageia Cauldron, I could _never_ get an updated kernel to _properly_ update GRUB's menu.list.
+I suppose it's rocket science. It's like GRUB was release yesterday and nobody knows how to deal with it.
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+> for my part i still love tmb a lot for his awesome work.
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+for the past, yes.
+for pushing 3.0.0 as a forced update to 2.6.38... this is just a bad decision!
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+you all squeak and tweak over pushing or not pushing Adobe Flash 11 Beta1 x86_64 into Cauldron, because it's beta. 
+heck, it's just a bloody plugin!
+but when comes to such a crucial thing as the kernel... forcing rc7over a working kernel is always good, because it's signed by Linus, and because tmb has pushed the mga patches.
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+well, I beg to strongly disagree.
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+r-c aka beranger
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