Re: Found extra files not sure if they can be deleted??

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On 12/9/20 7:47 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
I've been looking for what would create an updated entry for the rescue kernel in /boot/loader/entries since the old one remains with reference to fedora 30, but machine is at fedora 32??

If you delete the rescue kernel and initramfs, the next installed kernel will create new ones for that kernel.

Found a page that said kernel-install is the script that does it.
It has some parameters, and looked at the /lib/modules directory, but it has no entries for the rescue kernel, but has a lot of directories for outdated kernels??

The rescue kernel is not special. It's the initramfs that's special in that it contains drivers for everything, not just the ones that are needed to boot. So if you change the hardware to something not supported by the current set of drivers, you can still use the rescue boot option to startup.

Are these directories just left over from a process that should have removed them?

drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4096 Apr 19  2019 4.20.17-100.fc28.x86_64

Yes. What is in them? Usually that's caused by having an out-of-tree driver installed which doesn't always get cleaned up automatically.
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