How to install the old kernel?

[Wong Kwok-hon]

Hello

How to install back the old kernel? and the command is....
RPM rejected my installation because it is older than current.

Thanks...

Best Regards,
Wong Kwok Hon

[Ivan Cat]

Have you tried using --force parameter?

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Wong Kwok-hon <kwokhon(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hello
>
>  How to install back the old kernel? and the command is....
>  RPM rejected my installation because it is older than current.
>
>  Thanks...
>
>  Best Regards,
>  Wong Kwok Hon
>
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[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 11:40:44 +0300, Ivan Cat wrote:

>  Have you tried using --force parameter? 
Prefer --oldpackage because
--force is the same as --oldpackage --replacepkgs --replacefiles,
but very often you don't want the dangerous --replacefiles option.

[Ivan Cat]

if you use it with --update it automatically enables --oldpackage and
may overwrite your current kernel, if you try to use with --install it
shouldn't really corrupt anything

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Wong Kwok-hon <kwokhon(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hello,
>
>  Any bad impact would cause ?
>
>
>  On 7/3/08, Ivan Cat <ivancat(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> > Have you tried using --force parameter?
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Wong Kwok-hon <kwokhon(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > How to install back the old kernel? and the command is....
> > > RPM rejected my installation because it is older than current.
> > >
> > > Thanks...
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Wong Kwok Hon
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[Tim]

On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 14:18 +0800, Wong Kwok-hon wrote:
>  How to install back the old kernel? and the command is....
>  RPM rejected my installation because it is older than current. 
How many did you keep?  If you kept an even older one, one simplistic
solution is to boot into the very old kernel, uninstall the newest
problem one, then install the in-between one that *you* want.

I always keep several installed, just having two doesn't leave you much
room for solving problems.

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[Wong Kwok-hon]

But it is failed to install the old kernel using -i function in rpm.
It compared the installed version....
What can I do ? Use the force option ?

Wong Kwok Hon

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Simon Andrews <simon.andrews(a)bbsrc.ac.uk&gt; wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Wong Kwok-hon <kwokhon(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> How to install back the old kernel? and the command is....
> >> RPM rejected my installation because it is older than current.
>
>  Ivan Cat wrote:
> > Have you tried using --force parameter?
>
>  Don't do that!
>
>  Using --force is a last resort for when all else fails and you know why and
>  you understand what --force is going to do.  RPM doesn't refuse to install
>  packages on a whim, it's trying to stop you from screwing things up.
>
>  For most packages you can use --oldpackage to tell it that you know the
>  package you're tring to update to is older than the current package.
>
>  Kernels are different though.  You can parallel install serveral kernels, so
>  you'd usuall use rpm -i oldkernel.rpm rather than rpm -U.
>
>  You can then use the new kernel by going into the grub menu on boot and
>  selecting the older kernel from the list of available kernels.  At this
>  stage you can rpm -e the newer kernel pacakage if you really want to get rid
>  of it all together.
>
>  Simon.
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[Wong Kwok-hon]

Hello,

Any bad impact would cause ?


On 7/3/08, Ivan Cat <ivancat(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Have you tried using --force parameter?
>
>  On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Wong Kwok-hon <kwokhon(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  > Hello
>  >
>  > How to install back the old kernel? and the command is....
>  > RPM rejected my installation because it is older than current.
>  >
>  > Thanks...
>  >
>  > Best Regards,
>  > Wong Kwok Hon
>  >
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>
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[Simon Andrews]

>  On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Wong Kwok-hon
> <kwokhon(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > How to install back the old kernel? and the command is....
> > RPM rejected my installation because it is older than current. 
Ivan Cat wrote:
>  Have you tried using --force parameter? 
Don't do that!

Using --force is a last resort for when all else fails and you know why 
and you understand what --force is going to do.  RPM doesn't refuse to 
install packages on a whim, it's trying to stop you from screwing things up.

For most packages you can use --oldpackage to tell it that you know the 
package you're tring to update to is older than the current package.

Kernels are different though.  You can parallel install serveral 
kernels, so you'd usuall use rpm -i oldkernel.rpm rather than rpm -U.

You can then use the new kernel by going into the grub menu on boot and 
selecting the older kernel from the list of available kernels.  At this 
stage you can rpm -e the newer kernel pacakage if you really want to get 
rid of it all together.

Simon.