On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Matthew Miller wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] how long to reboot server ? > > 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.karsites.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] ----------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org <http://mattdm.org/> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >