Saving more than two kernels

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 19:08:29 UTC 2007


Richard A. Hogaboom wrote:
> Is there some simple way of setting yum to save previous versions
> of the kernel so that I can go back easily when new kernels cause
> problems? more than the two default, say maybe 5?

Unless it has changed recently, the one you are running during the 
install of the new one is the one that is kept - so even if the next 4 
kernels won't boot for you, you'll still have the one that does work.
I'm not sure how it makes this decision, but that was what I saw through 
  most of the life of FC5 where the update kernels wouldn't work on one 
of my machines until I did a bios upgrade.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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