Using yumex to install new kernel and keep old kernel

[Rick Bilonick]

On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 10:04 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Rick Bilonick wrote:
> > I'm running FC6. There are two kernels installed: 
> > 
> > [root at localhost ~]# rpm -qva | grep ^kernel
> > kernel-2.6.22.1-32.fc6
> > kernel-headers-2.6.22.1-32.fc6
> > kernel-2.6.20-1.2962.fc6
> > 
> > The problem is, wireless doesn't work with the newer kernel (2.6.22.1-32
> > - something to do with a conflict between wireless-tools and wireless
> > extensions and versions which I could not resolve) but it does work with
> > the older kernel (2.6.20-1.2962) and all the previous kernels. There is
> > a newer kernel available: 2.6.22.2-42. I would like to install
> > 2.6.22.2-42 and keep 2.6.20-1.2962. Yumex wants to remove 2962. I've
> > tried to remove 32 but when I try this it wants to remove the
> > kmod-ndiswrapper that goes with 2962 (because of dependencies - which
> > seems weird to me). Is there some way to do this with yumex or yum? Is
> > it possible to have all three kernels installed? (I used to be able to
> > have many kernels installed in previous versions of FC, not just two.)
> > I've also tried unchecking the kernel-module plugin for yumex but this
> > seems to have no effect.
> > 
> > Any advice would be appreciated. I would like to try the new kernel to
> > see if wireless will work but I don't want to lose a working kernel.
> > 
> > Rick B.
> > 
> This is strange - normally yum will not remove the running kernel
> when adding a new kernel. Because I do not reboot this machine very
> often, I have had kernels installed and removed that were never
> booted, because I was still using the older version because I had
> not rebooted.
> 
> You may be able to get around the dependency bug by using rpm
> instead of yum to remove the kernel. (rpm -e kernel-2.6.22.1-32 or
> rpm -e --nodeps kernel-2.6.22.1-32)
> 
> Mikkel
> -- 
I ran into the same problem when I tried to use yum. I solved the
problem by getting yumex to keep 3 kernels (instead of just two).
Unfortunately, the wireless bcm4318 driver will not work on the newer
2.6.22 kernels.

Thanks.

Rick B.