Re: Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-29 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> Just by the by, if you're faced with that flash issue again, you >> could simply cover the flash with your finger, or something else. > ToddAndMargo > Considering the number of time I have taken > picture of my fingers, that should of opccured > to me! > > :'( My mum used to do that al

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-28 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 8/28/23 17:05, Robert Nichols wrote: On 8/28/23 18:54, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 8/27/23 21:07, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/27/23 20:20, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 11:05 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Fedora 38 When I boot up, I get a bazillion kernel choices, mo

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-28 Thread Roger Heflin
The prior rpm -e that uninstalled the kernel rpms (no telling how long ago this was) was unable to remove stuff from boot becuse of likely some issue with /boot not being mounted, or read only or several other possible issues. This is why kernel and inits do not get removed from /boor but the rpm i

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-28 Thread Robert Nichols
On 8/28/23 19:16, Roger Heflin wrote:> On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 7:06 PM Robert Nichols wrote: On 8/28/23 18:54, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 8/27/23 21:07, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/27/23 20:20, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 11:05 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Fedora

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-28 Thread Roger Heflin
Those will probably actually be gone. The way you get these is if the /boot is not visible and/or mounted and/or hidden during the rpm removal or there is another /boot that was incorrectly mounted at the time over the right boot. The exact same thing also happens with installs, if wrong /boot t

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-28 Thread Robert Nichols
On 8/28/23 18:54, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 8/27/23 21:07, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/27/23 20:20, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 11:05 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Fedora 38 When I boot up, I get a bazillion kernel choices, most are not Fedora 38: Sorry for the flas

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-28 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 8/27/23 21:07, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 8/27/23 20:20, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 11:05 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Fedora 38 When I boot up, I get a bazillion kernel choices, most are not Fedora 38: Sorry for the flash.  I could not turn it to turn off https://imgu

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-28 Thread Stephen Morris
On 29/8/23 01:19, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 11:16 AM Roger Heflin wrote: Possible ways, are if the /boot was not mounted when a prior kernel removal was done, or if something else was mounted over boot when that kernel removal was done. Not removing the last kernel during d

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-28 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 8/28/23 07:23, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2023-08-27 at 20:04 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Sorry for the flash. I could not turn it to turn off https://imgur.com/7Mi5E3W.png Just by the by, if you're faced with that flash issue again, you could simply cover the flash with your f

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-28 Thread Roger Wells
On 8/28/23 13:00, Joe Zeff wrote: On 08/28/2023 08:20 AM, Tim via users wrote: YUM/DNF/RPM is not counting how many kernels you have on disc, it's counting how many kernel packages it installed.  It didn't install the kernels of your previous releases. I don't think so.  I've upgraded Fedora

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-28 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/28/2023 08:20 AM, Tim via users wrote: YUM/DNF/RPM is not counting how many kernels you have on disc, it's counting how many kernel packages it installed. It didn't install the kernels of your previous releases. I don't think so. I've upgraded Fedora installs many times, and watched th

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 11:16 AM Roger Heflin wrote: > > Possible ways, are if the /boot was not mounted when a prior kernel > removal was done, or if something else was mounted over boot when that > kernel removal was done. Not removing the last kernel during dnf-sysytem-upgrade is by design. Y

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-28 Thread Roger Heflin
Possible ways, are if the /boot was not mounted when a prior kernel removal was done, or if something else was mounted over boot when that kernel removal was done. Or if you have a dual boot system both using the same /boot directory (but different rootvgs). Each install would manage the rpms tha

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-28 Thread Barry
> On 28 Aug 2023, at 13:09, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > > I guess using installonly_limit to tell it how many kernels to keep no > longer works? It is working on all my fedora hosts. Even honoured by dnf system-upgrade. But this is not the first time someone has reported having too many kernels

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-28 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2023-08-27 at 20:04 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Sorry for the flash. I could not turn it > to turn off > > https://imgur.com/7Mi5E3W.png Just by the by, if you're faced with that flash issue again, you could simply cover the flash with your finger, or something else. It doesn

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-28 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2023-08-28 at 08:08 -0400, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > I guess using installonly_limit to tell it how many kernels to keep no > longer works? > > [raub@some-host ~]$ fgrep installonly_limit /etc/yum.conf > # installonly_limit=5 > installonly_limit=3 YUM/DNF/RPM keeps track of what *it* has

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-28 Thread Mauricio Tavares
On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 12:08 AM Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 8/27/23 20:20, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 11:05 PM ToddAndMargo via users > > wrote: > >> > >> Fedora 38 > >> > >> When I boot up, I get a bazillion kernel choices, > >> most are not Fedora 38: > >> > >> Sorry for t

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 8/27/23 20:20, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 11:05 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Fedora 38 When I boot up, I get a bazillion kernel choices, most are not Fedora 38: Sorry for the flash. I could not turn it to turn off https://imgur.com/7Mi5E3W.png The extra kernels a

Re: Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-27 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 11:05 PM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > Fedora 38 > > When I boot up, I get a bazillion kernel choices, > most are not Fedora 38: > > Sorry for the flash. I could not turn it > to turn off > > https://imgur.com/7Mi5E3W.png > > The extra kernels are from Fedora 37 and 36

Too many Kernels at boot

2023-08-27 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
Hi All, Fedora 38 When I boot up, I get a bazillion kernel choices, most are not Fedora 38: Sorry for the flash. I could not turn it to turn off https://imgur.com/7Mi5E3W.png The extra kernels are from Fedora 37 and 36. This is what Fedora 38 says I have: $ rpm -qa kernel kernel-6.4.10-200