why did FC6 install a XEN kernel on my inspiron?

[Robert P. J. Day]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Tom Horsley <tomhorsley at adelphia.net>
>Sent: Nov 7, 2006 9:41 AM
>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>Cc: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: why did FC6 install a XEN kernel on my inspiron?
>
>My system can support Xen, but I was also surprised to find nothing
>except a Xen kernel installed when I did a clean install. I had to
>install the non-Xen kernel via yum.
>
>I don't know if you can run yum install from rescue mode, but that might
>be an option to get the non-Xen kernel if you can't boot at all with the
>Xen kernel.

i believe my error was that i've never played with XEN before and, during
the install, i selected "virtualization" thinking, "hey, maybe i'll get around
to playing with that some day."

as i read it now, selecting that was what gave me the XEN kernel to begin
with, is that right?

rday