(I was wrong) dnf and removing the running kernel

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Mon Apr 13 00:31:58 UTC 2015


On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 14:41:37 -0500,
  Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
>It looks like I got burned by dnf removing the running kernel during update.
>Due to dracut / grubby issues only my oldest kernel was bootable. I 
>didn't notice that the old kernel had been removed until after the 
>machine crashed (I suspect because the kernel had removed, since that 
>kernel had been working just fine for months.)

I need to apologize for this. I had a combination of bad memory and not 
carefully checking what I was doing. When I rechecked, the oldest kernel 
hadn't been removed and did still boot.


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