Installation Of New Kernel Through Yast

I'm using the OpenSUSE 11.0 Beta 3. Yesterday, I updated everything through YAST, including a kernel update. What I didn't do was run mkinitrd, because I didn't realize I had to. Upon reboot, the system failed to boot (Error 15: File not found.)

I've since fixed the problem (which was unfortunately exacerbated by a bug in the kernel that prevented even a correct setup from booting) but I'm curious: why isn't this step performed automatically? Furthermore, why is the previous kernel clobbered in the process?

I've moved your post to the beta forum, which is appropriate for discussing 11.0 at this point.

The kernel package in the recent update was broken, the devs did push out an updated package to fix.

Yast, unfortunately, updates kernels, rather than performing parallel installs. There is some talk about changing this behavior, but for now, updates through Yast will result in a new kernel replacing your previous kernel.

You can avoid this by downloading the kernel package manually, and installing it via rpm -i. This will create a new kernel install, and modify the grub menu appropriately to accommodate the additional kernel option.

Hope this helps...

Cheers,
KV