Feature changed by: Patrick Dubeau (DaaX) Feature #310665, revision 7 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 #2: david henry (dvhenry) (2010-10-04 15:30:54) The advantages of always having a useable kernel far outway any savings made by not keeping the old kernel, and those savings are what? a few meg of disk space! #3: matthias propst (l1zard) (2010-10-04 16:26:38) the one i like about opensuse is not to have billions of kernels when i start up like ubuntu and debian does. it should be optin. i dont realy like it to uninstall old kernel by hand, espacialy not if you have to do that on several machines. + #4: Patrick Dubeau (daax) (2010-10-04 17:27:45) + Hi, + + Mandriva does it since 2009.1 I think and there is no need to erase old + kernels, it is done automatically. I d'on't know how they do it though. + When there is an upgrade of kernel k, the system keeps the k and k-1 + and thus erasing the k-2 and + kernels and entries in GRUB. + -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310665