On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 07:50 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: <snip> > So my question then is: Can yum be told to dl and install the new > kernels but leave grub.conf alone, and not remove the older kernel? > I don't believe this is yum doing this. I believe it is the post script inside the rpm package that is updating grub.conf.... So even if you were to manually download the kernel package and use rpm -i to install it, it would still update grub.conf..... --Rob