Saving more than two kernels
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Thu Apr 19 16:14:02 UTC 2007
Kam Leo wrote:
> Yes, kernel-2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 broke PS/2 mouse functionality on some
> systems, one of which belonged to me. It took an additional three
> updates before an updated kernel was released which fixed the problem
> on my system. To date some users report their PS/2 mouse is still
> broken.
>
> Since FC5 I have made it a practice of setting "tokeep" to 5. I do not
> maintain 5 kernels, but I keep the threshold at 5 for events such as
> the one above.
>
But the kernel you are running will be kept regardless of the
setting. I have had it happen a few times where there have been
several kernel updates before I got around to rebooting the machine.
So I had a kernel or two that had never been booted removed, while
the older version I was running was still installed.
Mikkel
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