On Fri, 3 Sep 2010, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > To: 'CentOS mailing list' <centos at centos.org> > From: Joseph L. Casale <jcasale at activenetwerx.com> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] how long to reboot server ? > >> My reboot times are regular, (still on F12 on this >> machine) but I always copy the kernel files into a subdir 'tmp-backups' so I can get them back if needed, even if yum deletes them. > > Huh, ok... What do you do with *just* the kernel? > Let me know how that works if you ever want to boot from it? Possibly the rpm > might make more sense? A long time ago now. Maybe I was falling back to a previous kernel version that had not been uninstalled by yum, or was it YaST on SuSE Linux? Perhaps keeping the rpm for a kernel that you know works, tucked away on the system would be a good move? Also, if you downgrade the kernel version, would this have any effect on other packages on the system? Kind Regards, Keith Roberts ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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] -----------------------------------------------------------------