going back to a previous kernel

[Scott Berry]

Hi Nigel,

Two more questions for you.

1.  How would one add repositories to apt?  I have quite a few I would like 
to add.

2.  How do I exclude kernels from being updated?

Scott
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nigel Henry" <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2007 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: going back to a previous kernel


> On Sunday 13 May 2007 21:21, Scott Berry wrote:
>> Hello there,
>>
>> How do you go back to a previous kernel?  I read something about grub on
>> the dektop but I don't remember where that is.
>>
>> Scott
>
> Hi Scott. You will find the grub config file, as root on the CLI,
> at /boot/grub/grub.conf.
>
> There are a couple of lines you can make changes to. One is named
> "hiddenmenu" . Put a # at the start of the line, and when you boot up, 
> Grubs
> menu will be shown, showing you all available kernels. Also you can change
> the "timeout" line. changing this from 5 to 30 will give you more time to
> choose which kernel you want to boot.
>
> If you are using Apt for getting updates to the system, apt-get update,
> followed by apt-get dist-upgrade, all kernels will be saved to Grubs menu.
>
> If you are using Yum, it only saves as default, the 2 latest kernels. You 
> can
> change this behaviour by editing /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf .
> Just change the line "enabled=1" to "enabled=0" . This will disable the
> plugin, and subsequent kernel updates will all be saved to Grubs config 
> file,
> and will show up on Grubs menu.
>
> All the best.
>
> Nigel.
>
>
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