Switching from fc6xen kernel to plain old kernel

[Whil Hentzen]

Hi folks,

I'm preparing to install the VMWare Server on FC6... took a look at the
archives, and saw that folks are having a couple of problems, vis-a-vi
kernel i686 vs kernel-devel i586, and/or having the xen kernel installed.

I have both 2.6.18-1.2798-fc6xen and 2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xen installed.

So my game plan is to move from fc6xen to plain old fc6, then add in the
kernel-devel kernel. Given that this is my work-a-day box, I'd rather
not mess up anything....

My grub/menu.lst looks like this:
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xen)
  root (hd0,0)
  kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6
  module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
  module /initrd-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xen.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen)
  root (hd0,0)
  kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
  module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
  module /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen.img

So it seems to me that I only have the xen kernels installed. A post on
the VMWare list said:

 From the command line login as root, type the following to remove the
xen kernel
   rpm -e Kernel-xen-2.6.18-1.nnnn.fc6
Reboot

My questions are (I don't want to try this blindly)

1. If I remove the xen kernel, won't I be left with NO kernel? :( Or
does removing the xen kernel somehow magically revert to the non-xen
kernel?

2. I've seen two choices for installed in the kernel-devel:
    "rpm -e kernel-devel-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6"
    or
    "yum install kernel-devel"

I assume that I'll grab either i586 or i686 depending on what the
results of question #1 are.

I've been updating the noobie way, via K Menu | System | Software
Updater. :) Is there a preferred method (rpm v yum) given how I have
been updating?

Thanks,

Whil Hentzen
Milwaukee