Feature changed by: James McDaniel (jdmcdaniel3) Feature #310665, revision 3 Title: Keep the current kernel when doing a kernel update through yast openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Wilfred van Velzen (wvv) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: See this discussion on the forum: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-help-here/install-boot-login/447030-k... Summary: Keeping the current kernel installed should be the default and automatic behaviour for a kernel update through Yast! (Provided there is enough space on the partition that holds /boot). Or it could be a setting somewhere to keep the last X number of previous installed kernels (where X should default to 1). Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: When the newly installed kernel doesn't work or has some issues. The user has an easy way to boot into a previous kernel, so he still has a working system. + Discussion: + #1: James McDaniel (jdmcdaniel3) (2010-10-04 14:16:06) + I also agree that by default, openSUSE should maintain both old and new + kernel versions so that in the event of a bad or defective kernel + installation, it would be easy to drop back to an older kernel + version. I would add this as the default method in openSUSE 11.4 to + allow the addition or removal of kernel versions, but that loading a + new kernel does not automatically remove the older version. + + Thank You, + J. McDaniel -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310665