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Re: newbie

<quote who="Seth Arnold">
u> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 06:44:34PM -0800, Venkat Raghu wrote:
u> > 3) If my new kernel image is not good enough for my
u> > machine to come up, then what is the method to tell 
u> > linux machine to use some backup image incase...
u> 
u> This depends on how badly you screwed up the kernel. :) If you just made
u> little mistakes, grub or lilo will be able to keep backup kernel images.
u> If you made big mistakes and yourr system isn't bootable with different
u> kernel images, then you might wish to use a system such as mondo to
u> restore your system from backup. Or keep your system changes in CVS or
u> something like that.

I would recommend that you use user-mode-linux, or some emulator to test
your kernel image, so that when there is a kernel panic, the impact
won't be that great, and you can simply restart the process to retest
your code.

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