On Sat, May 7, 2016 at 10:22 PM, P. Gueckel <pgueckel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On my laptop, I notice that the kernel that got > installed from the Workstation live disc is kernel. I > did an update and now I see that the very same > numbered kernel, but the pae version, has now been > installed. > > I just checked and, unlike previous releases, F24 ha > no /etc/sysconfig/kernel file. This is where it used > to be possible to set the required kernel type. Nicer, > of course, is that the system figures it out > automatically, but the file is fine, but, as I > indicated, it is not present. > > Now, a while back I read that pae kernels are only > used with i686 machines that have at least 4G or more > of memory. My computer has only 1G of memory, so the > pae is the wrong one. So, why did dnf update give me > the wrong kernel? How do I get rid of it? And, how do > I make sure that I don't get another pae in the > future? Boot the non-PAE kernel, then dnf remove the PAE kernel packages, there will be three, kernel, kernel-core, kernel-modules. At least in my case with Cinnamon on i686, I got both PAE and non-PAE and dnf is just keeping both up to date. -- Chris Murphy -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
