Questions regarding Kernel Upgrades.

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Jojobinha_2009 · Post by **Jojobinha_2009** » Wed Mar 31, 2021 8:14 pm

Today I had my first kernel update.

5.11.10-gentoo > 5.11.11-gentoo.

But I forgot to do

 eselect kernel set

before running

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genkernel all

.

So it's started compiling the kernel all over again...
I just stopped it by issuing ctrl+c.

Is that ok?

Also, to remove the old kernel I just unmerged the previous sources and deleted the old kernel images manually with

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rm -f

.

Is this the correct procedure?

I want to avoid breaking my install as much as possible as it took long to get it up and running.

Makersmarx · Post by **Makersmarx** » Wed Mar 31, 2021 9:04 pm

This should answer your questions for an upgrade. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade Just make sure your bootloader etc is updated and that you can boot into new kernel before removing anything. I also suggest keeping an extra kernel in case anything breaks with an upgrade....always nice to have a plan B if needed.