Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote: > > But more urgently: what's the best way to ensure that you don't have a > non-functioning computer in the morning, because of a driver/kernel > mismatch? Do I have to exclude kernel and kmod* from yum updates? > Make sure you have all the modules you need before doing a reboot? You may also want to keep more then 2 kernels installed at a time. One thing I have not checked on though - what does yum do when upgrading the kernel when the currently running kernel would be the one that it would be removed? I would hope it would not try to remove the running kernel, but you never know. You wouldn't run into a problem until you rebooted or needed to load a module... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!