I have a question here. My system, for example, has kernel *and* kernel-smp for each kernel release. However, I've never seen it use the regular one, only the smp. So, is there *any* good reason to keep the regular (not -smp) kernel around? or is it safe to remove those too?
For example, I have:
rpm -qa | grep kernel-2 ; rpm -qa | grep kernel-sm
kernel-2.6.10-1.766_FC3 kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.766_FC3
uname -r
2.6.10-1.770_FC3smp
So, is there a reason to keep: kernel-2.6.10-1.766_FC3 and kernel-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 ? (Of course, I keep the kernel-smp-2.6.10-1.766_FC3. )
Sometimes there are problems that affect only SMP kernels. So it's handy to be able to boot up using a uniprocessor kernel on SMP machines, even if only to install an older SMP kernel that didn't exhibit the problem (or perhaps to try to help debug the problem). Normally you wouldn't delete an old kernel until you were sure you were happy with the new one, but having the uniprocessor version there as a backup is a nice safety net.
Paul.
