Problem booting under F16

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 13:37 -0800, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Currently, the laptop goes into emergency mode and hangs two out of 
> three times if I use the newest kernel.  The third time it continues 
> until it says that SELinux needs to relabel things and that it might 
> take a while.  Then it just sits with no disk activity until I power 
> cycle it.  If I try booting from the old F14 kernel, it's a Ronson: 
> "first time, every time."  No trouble booting.
> 
> One of the things worrying me now is that I have three kernels: the 
> newest, the upgrade kernel and the old, working one.  I'd like to get 
> rid of the upgrade kernel, safely, so that the next kernel update 
> doesn't nuke the only working one I currently have.  Anybody know how?
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I am under the impression that you can change the 'installonly_limit'
value in /etc/yum.conf (of which kernel is definitely one of those) but
to be honest, I've never tinkered with it.

Craig


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