On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 16:39 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Dec 25, 2007 3:44 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 14:39 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: > > > On Dec 25, 2007 2:20 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote: > > > > > > > OK, I thought I ended xen excursions by removing previous copy of xen > > > > kernel but obviously it came back with updates. How do I make sure that > > > > xen kernel doesn't get installed next time? > > > > > > Do a 'rpm -q kernel' and remove all -xen kernels installed. > > ---- > > been there, done that...but that wasn't the answer. > > > > /etc/sysconfig/kernel was the answer > > I somehow had an impression that you originally installed the standard > kernel and then installed the xen kernel later to "play" with it. > However, from what you said it is now apparent (to me) that you > _originally_ installed the xen kernel. This is because > /etc/sysconfig/kernel is set up by anaconda at the install time and in > your case it had the "kernel-xen" defined. In this case, editing > /etc/sysconfig/kernel is indeed required because removing the xen > kernels would not touch that file. In other words, once set up by > anaconda, /etc/sysconfig/kernel remains the same regardless of what > kernel you install or remove at a later time. ---- This system actually had a clean install of RHEL which still had about 6 months of entitlement left and it probably asked me about installing xen and I failed to grasp the significance of that question/answer at the time...I don't even recall seeing it. I have since migrated the system to CentOS 5. I also have done CentOS 5 installations and noticed that the choice of xen install was fairly obvious, perhaps I learned to pay attention. In fact, I didn't even check until you had me do the modinfo and then I ran uname to double check and it smacked me in the face...xen returned on me for no apparent reason (but the apparent reason was obviously /etc/sysconfig/kernel) and I learned something. Obviously the choice of xen install includes not only the /etc/sysconfig/kernel setting but also the xen support packages I previously listed. Craig