noodle4d ago

I'm having a Linux brainfart moment.

My Fedora and Devuan systems cache old installs for rollback. Fedora presents these in the boot selection. I can't find this in Debian, it isn't in the package manager and the searches I've tried haven't been helpful. Where is this in Debian? What keyword should I be searching for?

Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵
@noodle you mean like previous kernel versions? it's something you can configure in grub2 but I'm not sure if there's a tool for that or if you have to go digging in text files 😅
Apr 8 at 11:13pmWeb
Show threadnoodle4d ago
@bazkie I think that's what I mean. In Fedora it allows for trivially easy rollback.
Show threadbazkie 👩🏼‍💻 bitplanes 🎵4d ago

@noodle I remember debian having this too (I disabled it manually years ago)

wait, maybe you can just install an older kernel version using synaptic, and it would show up in the boot menu automatically? not sure but it might work. the ones called linux-image-version_you_want

Show threadnoodle4d ago
@bazkie I'm wanting to enable it, and confirm it works, to ward off future disaster. There's no issue yet.