From: Greg Byrd (gbyrd_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Oct 01 2007 - 17:02:25 CEST
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 08:02:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Greg Byrd <gbyrd@yahoo.com> Message-ID: <8713.57458.qm@web39602.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] kernel update advice on SLES
Hi Gaël.
I observed the same issue earlier this year and during
a support call to Novell I talked to a support person
about my concerns with this. The Novell support
person agreed with these concerns, but there hasn't
been a change to this approach.
We run SLES 8 and 9 on a mainframe, so there isn't a
CD/DVD to facilitate system recovery if a
installed/upgraded kernel is bad. I would like to see
Novell step up to the plate and fix this (perhaps it
is with SLES 10). For those running SLES on
mainframes, this is a huge issue (my humble opinion of
course).
Greg
--- Gaël Lams <lamsgael@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We recently set-up SLES 9 SP3 servers with the
> Oracle Applicationas
> ERP on top of it.
>
> We setup a local you servers and will next week
> perform the updates. I
> saw several kernel updates and know that normally
> with yast what is
> performed is an rpm -U instead of an rpm-i (at least
> it was like this
> on the Professional/Opensuse version).
> This means that when you reboot you only have one
> entry in the boot
> loader and in case of problem, it can be a mess to
> recover. I know
> that you could download the kernel rpms, install it
> (not update) and
> this way, in case of the problem, you just have to
> reboot back to the
> previous kernel to have a working system.
>
> Is there a recommended way? It is safe to have it
> done automatically
> though yast?
> The fact is that SP3 was released on Jan 2006 and
> there a really a lot
> of patches to be installed: using yast would be
> "easier" but would it
> be safe for kernel updates?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Gaël
>
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