/etc/sysconfig/kernel

Colin Charles byte at aeon.com.my
Sun Feb 18 04:29:19 UTC 2007


Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:

> I want to run Xen on Fedora Core 6. The default Xen kernel in Fedora
> comes PAE enabled, but I don't want that and so have to disable it.
> I've figured how to recompile my own kernel based on Fedora's kernel
> but with PAE disabled (following the instructions at this link:
> http://felipe-alfaro.org/blog/2007/02/04/netbsd-31-under-xen-303/).
> What concerns me, however, is that its quite possible in the near
> future an updated kernel is released by Fedora and that would
> over-write my default kernel. So I'd like to know what steps I can
> take to prevent this ...

Use UPDATEDEFAULT to say you don't want to, afaik

Also, I wouldn't run Xen without PAE enabled. Even the Debian folk have 
stopped packaging it that way. It looks like Xen won't be running on 
that kind of machines any longer

-- 
Colin Charles, http://www.bytebot.net/
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you,
then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi




More information about the fedora-list mailing list