On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 13:58 -0400, 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 Because you have more than one kernel installed. This is perfectly normal. When you update the system, you usually have the old kernel and the new one (and maybe more), just in case anything goes wrong. Note: this is just the kernel itself, not the whole system. poc
