Rebuilt kernel => no consoles?

[Derek Broughton]

David Abrahams wrote:

> Oh, and now I remember what made me so reluctant to do this.  The last
> time I tried to rebuild the stack, the very first thing it wanted to
> do was blow away all of the relevant existing files in
> /lib/modules/..., which means that undoing the install if something
> goes wrong is tricky at best.  How do you deal with that issue?
> 
Create a kernel with a custom version number. If you're using make-kpkg,
it'll create it that way by default.  So then you have
a /lib/modules/2.6.nn-6-686/ (from the default kernel)
and /lib/modules/2.6.nn-6-686-custom1 (or similar, from your self-compiled
kernel).

-- 
derek