Kernel

[Peter Robinson]

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Kevin Gordon <kgordon420 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi folks:
>
> There is a new kernel displayed for the XO1 when a yum update is done on a
> vanilla  883 machine.
>
> Being adventurous, I did the yum update kernel separately, then did the cp -
> ..... instruction from the readme.
>
> uname -a shows the new kernel is running.
>
> However, it looks to me that the old kernel files remain in /boot and the
> .../current ... directories.  Some with '111005' in their name would appear
> to me to be the old ones and the new ones would be those with '111026' in
> their name
>
> Is there any appreciable advantage to manually removing the old files, or
> conversely is there any disadvantage?

You should follow the procedure here

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Kernel#Installing_kernel_RPMs

Peter