On 04/07/14 23:12, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Fri, 04 Jul 2014 08:21:52 -0400 Anton Aylward wrote:
What bothers me about your description, Carl, is that the kernel update, if it came from one of the suse repositories and was downloaded with yast/zypper is that it should have automatically triggered the 'grub2-mkconfig' and not required you to do that manually. Hi Anton, this was exactly my point. "Never" is kind of strong, but I can't recall seeing this happen before with a normal zypper update.
The 'only one entry' .... Well see the settings in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf. These were as I expected:
multiversion = provides:multiversion(kernel) multiversion.kernels = latest,running
You might check the responses earlier in this thread for some ideas about how to (or not) retain more than one kernel during updates. Before grub2, my standard configuration was always 'latest' plus the previous two and the boot menu entries for each were created automatically.
I'm beginning to think there's some kind of 'if in doubt, don't touch' logic being triggered by the other installed operating systems. Maybe more than one kernel under this scenario is too much for it to figure out? :-)
I just noted Anton's reference above to "..downloaded with yast/zypper.." . For this reason I must add to what I wrote earlier in answer to your question about what appears in the grub menu, and that is that I NEVER update the kernel using YaST but always use zypper. The kernel I use comes not from the oS update repo but from the ../Kernel:/stable/standard/ repo, and the first thing I do when I first boot the computer in the morning is to do 'zypper refresh', 'zypper patch', 'zypper up' - so YaST doesn't ever come into the picture. If a new kernel is downloaded I then do 'grub2-mkconfig....' followed by recompiling the nVidia driver to suit the new kernel. BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.13.2 & kernel 3.15.3-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org