<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Larry Brower <<a href="mailto:larry@maxqe.com">larry@maxqe.com</a>><br>
To: Community support for Fedora users <<a href="mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org">users@lists.fedoraproject.org</a>><br>Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:55:22 -0500<br>Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Amazing problem of /boot<br>
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Here, after updating the system (from the GUI, System---->Administration--->Software Update), i see in above two titles of Fedora, and why it is so? but the no. is bracket for two are different, respectively:<br>
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'title Fedora (2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i586)'<br>
'title Fedora (2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586)'<br>
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i am confused why it is so.<br>
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thx<br>
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This is because you updated which also updated the kernel. The two options are for the two kernels you have installed. The old one and the new one<br></blockquote><div><br>yes, the two kernels.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Tim <<a href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au">ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</a>><br>To: Community support for Fedora users <<a href="mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org">users@lists.fedoraproject.org</a>><br>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:09:36 +0930<br>Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Amazing problem of /boot<br>On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 12:21 +0530, Parshwa Murdia wrote:<br>
> Here, after updating the system (from the GUI,<br>
> System---->Administration--->Software Update), i see in above two<br>
> titles of Fedora, and why it is so? but the no. is bracket for two are<br>
> different, respectively:<br>
><br>
> 'title Fedora (2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i586)'<br>
> 'title Fedora (2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586)'<br>
><br>
> i am confused why it is so.<br>
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When you install updated kernels, they're added to the system, and<br>
previously installed kernels are kept. The newest one will be at the<br>
top of the list.<br>
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This allows you to work around a problem with a kernel, if you have one,<br>
by booting up with one that worked previously. And on that note, I<br>
recommend keeping more than the default two or three kernels, just in<br>
case some problem sneaks in that takes you a while to notice. The more<br>
options you have to test with, the better.<br>
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You can change the number of kernels that will be kept from within<br>
the /etc/yum.conf file. There'll be an installonly_limit line like this<br>
"installonly_limit=3" somewhere in that file, or you can add it if there<br>
isn't one.<br></blockquote><div><br>the line is exactly like 'installonly_limit=3'.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On my system, I bumped it up to 6. That gives me plenty of things to<br>
test problems against, and doesn't waste too much space and updating<br>
time. The more kernels you keep, the more time yum takes to figure out<br>
dependencies, etc., when you do a "yum update".<br>
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--<br>
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r<br>
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686<br>
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Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I<br>
read messages from the public lists.<br></blockquote></div><br>but if we have more kernels, it occupies more space, may be less, though it may be good for testing purpose but for disk utility is it okay always to have more than one kernel?<br>
<br>thx<br>