Lock question

Gustavo Niemeyer gustavo at niemeyer.net
Fri Jan 13 10:44:02 PST 2006


> Help!  I just spent all morning installing FC4 onto my new notebook.
> Then I installed smart and ran update/upgrade.  It removed the
> original kernel (2.6.11 something) and installed a new one, that won't
> boot!
> 
> I thought this wasn't supposed to happen.
> 
> Why did it not keep my old kernel?
> 
> How do I prevent this from happening again?

It should be set to multi-version as others have said. Check
"smart flag --help" for more information, if you're using the
command line.

You may also lock the kernel package, if that's what you really want.
In that case use the "multi-version" flag.

-- 
Gustavo Niemeyer
http://niemeyer.net



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