Re: Boot option question

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Patrick Baldwin wrote:
I'm guessing this is an easy one, but I can't seem to figure out how to
ask Google right.

I just set up a dual boot Windows XP / Fedora 8 system.

I downloaded Fedora Core 8 i386 from the website.  When installing,
I modified the partition table to have a /home and a /share, but
that's the only changes I thought I made.

Everything seems to work fine now, except when I go to the menu
that allows me to select what to boot into, I was expecting to
find only XP (which was Other, until I changed it in grub) and
one Fedora option; I instead have two Fedora options, listed
as:

Fedora 2.6.24.4-64.fc8
Fedora 2.6.23.1-43.fc8

Why?


Just out of curiosity, did you do a 'yum update' at some point on the reboot? Normally that's how you get more than one kernel option listed. I think (someone clarify this if I'm wrong) the default yum update option for kernels keeps the 2 most recent ones in /boot (and grub) in case the latest kernel doesn't work on your hardware for some reason.

HTH.

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