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. -- Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/>