seeing double kernels!

hugeness · 02-13-2006, 05:19 AM

hello

just reinstalled fedora core 4 - became unstable after installing audacity, went into yum and 'updated all' now when i boot i have 2 version options for fedora to boot - is this normal?

should i have updated the kernel first perhaps?

thanks!

satinet · 02-13-2006, 05:40 AM

do both work? Do they both boot the same partition in lilo/grub??

maybe you just have two differnet kernel versions installed, which is quite possible. Some people like to do testing, or have stable fall back. sounds like fedora might have wrongly updated your boot loader...

Maestro485 · 02-13-2006, 06:02 AM

If I remember correctly, I believe Fedora releases its own "custom" kernels much more frequently than official kernel releases. When I was using Fedora, it was not uncommon to end up with several different kernel options after a few months. It doesn't really make any difference, though. I think they just leave behind the old kernels as a fall back in case a new one breaks your system.

By the way, I have no idea why they release so many variations on the kernel, but I suppose they have their reasons.

hugeness · 02-13-2006, 06:11 AM

yep they both boot to the same files.
thanks for the info - so long as they are stable - if you get a setup like this in windows ie 2 versions of the same os on the same partition - everything can get a bit wobbly.

next time i run yum i shall check for kernel updates and get them out of the way first, just for peace of mind. RH update agent is a bit of a pain but it did at least prompt you to do this automatically.

thanks again!