On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Matthew Miller wrote:
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> From: Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: how long to reboot server ?
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> On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:17:37PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Does anyone know if this is special-cased or some config setting? I
>
> It's special-cased.
>
>> recall in FC5 having a an IBM 225 that ran OK with the initial kernels
>> but at some update would not boot the new one and many subsequent
>> versions. I think there were more failing kernels than the number
>> configured to keep but I was always able to recover by selecting the old
>> working version in the grub boot menu so it looked like it was a special
>> case. Eventually I did a bios update on the machine which let the new
>> kernels run but broke the older ones.
>
> You can configure the number to keep to be very large, if you want.
How do you do that then Matt?
Regards,
Keith
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