Re: Too many Kernels at boot

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On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 12:08 AM Samuel Sieb <samuel@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 8/27/23 20:20, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 11:05 PM ToddAndMargo via users
> > <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Fedora 38
> >>
> >> When I boot up, I get a bazillion kernel choices,
> >> most are not Fedora 38:
> >>
> >> Sorry for the flash.  I could not turn it
> >> to turn off
> >>
> >> https://imgur.com/7Mi5E3W.png
> >>
> >> The extra kernels are from Fedora 37 and 36.
> >>
> >> This is what Fedora 38 says I have:
> >>
> >> $ rpm -qa kernel
> >> kernel-6.4.10-200.fc38.x86_64
> >> kernel-6.4.11-200.fc38.x86_64
> >> kernel-6.4.12-200.fc38.x86_64
> >>
> >> Do I really have all those extra kernels?
> >>
> >> How do I clean things up?
>
> Look in /boot to see if there are actually kernels and initrd files for
> the entries.  If there are, you will have to manually delete them.
> Look in /boot/loader/entries/ to see if there are conf files for those
> entries and delete the ones that don't match installed kernel packages.
>
> > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/upgrading-fedora-offline/#sect-clean-up-old-kernels
>
> That won't help in this case because the relevant entries don't have
> installed packages.
>

I guess using installonly_limit to tell it how many kernels to keep no
longer works?

[raub@some-host ~]$ fgrep installonly_limit /etc/yum.conf
# installonly_limit=5
installonly_limit=3
[raub@some-host ~]$
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