kernel upgrade with yum removed old kernels

david walcroft david_walcroft at yahoo.com.au
Mon May 7 03:21:18 UTC 2007


Martin Marques wrote:
> I just finished upgrading the kernels in my FC6 with yum and I see this 
> at the end:
> 
> Removed: kernel.i686 0:2.6.20-1.2933.fc6 kernel.i686 0:2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
> Installed: kernel.i686 0:2.6.20-1.2948.fc6
> 
> Now, why did it remove does kernel? Shouldn't it just install the new 
> ones and leave old ones there?
> 
For what it's worth my system at /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf
is "tokeep=4" but the last kernel update only left 2 kernels in boot.I 
have no idea how to fix this.

   david




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