[YLUG] Grub

[john halewood]

On 09/12/2007, Mike Cohler <mike.cohler at gmail.com> wrote:
>  What makes you think that .23 is not stable?  In the old days odd kernel
> numbers did indicate this but for quite some time there has not been such a
> thing as stable and unstable kernels that are released. Unstable are .rcn
 ermm.. not quite. The unstable/development series always had an odd
digital in the second place (hence 1.3, 2.1, 2.3, 2.5 etc). 2.6 speeds
up the development process by rather than forking a seperate branch,
introducing new material normally via Andrew Morton's tree and then
integrating it into the stable kernel..
 However, as you say, what we do need is some of the kernel output to
find out what happens before the panic - usually you get something
like 'kernel panic  not syncing' and a list of modules/addresses where
the problem occurs. You get quite used to them after a while,
especially if, like me, you spend too long trying to boot cutting edge
development kernels on architectures like the alpha.

cheers
john