On Sunday 02 November 2008 07:05:45 Lars Müller wrote:
On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 09:00:37PM +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Saturday, 2008-11-01 at 18:52 +0100, Lars Müller wrote:
The open or a different question is how to display this state ot the opportinities to the user at the grub screen. Here the help of usebility experts might be the most promising approach.
I believe that simply it adds an entry to the menu with the kernel name and version, probably sorted by age. This is done by a script in the kernel rpm.
This is _currently_ all done with the help of the script hooks (preinstall,postinstall,preuninstall,postuninstall) of the kernel RPM.
The question I had in mind was: How to make the install of several kernels _useable_. [...]
Yum already does all of this, so it is possible. Yum is also configurable as to how many versions to keep (defaults to 2). Regards, -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ===================================================