Back-rev kernels do not appear in GRUB menu

Erik Hemdal ehemdal at townisp.com
Sun Feb 22 17:44:05 UTC 2004


> On Sunday 22 February 2004 4:59 pm, Erik Hemdal wrote:
> > I've noticed that after updating the kernel, I do not have a selection
> > of kernels in the GRUB menu, as I do on my RH9 system.
> >
> > rpm -qa reports only kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl and none of the older
> > kernels.
> >
> > Anyone know why?
> >
> > Thanks for any pointers or advice.   Erik
> 
> 
> Sure... you yourself answered your question with the use of the word "update".  
> If you did "rpm -Uvh" instead of "rpm -ivh" that would explain your 
> problem...

Yes, this is what I did.  I should have caught that -- guess I'm
asleep.  Interesting that yum does the same by default, something I
really don't want it to do.   Thanks for the reminder!

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