Re: Help! they shrunk the Kernel!

On 2008-03-10, Matt Giwer <jull43@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am using FC-8 64bit. I yum upgraded tonight and a 62MB kernel was replaced by
a 17MB kernel. Did I miss a staff meeting?

Wow. *None* of the kernels I've gotten with Fedroa-8 64 bit are anywher
near that large!

[john@lancre ~]$ uname -a
Linux lancre 2.6.24.3-12.fc8 #1 SMP Tue Feb 26 14:21:30 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x
[john@lancre ~]$ ls -lh /boot
total 30M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1M Feb 12 12:36 System.map-2.6.21-2957.fc8xen
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1M Feb 15 11:42 System.map-2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1M Feb 10 16:33 System.map-2.6.23.15-137.fc8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.1M Feb 26 13:38 System.map-2.6.24.3-12.fc8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67K Feb 12 12:36 config-2.6.21-2957.fc8xen
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67K Feb 15 11:42 config-2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 71K Feb 10 16:33 config-2.6.23.15-137.fc8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75K Feb 26 13:38 config-2.6.24.3-12.fc8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1.0K Mar 7 05:39 grub
-rw------- 1 root root 4.0M Feb 14 08:25 initrd-2.6.21-2957.fc8xen.img
-rw------- 1 root root 4.0M Feb 19 08:09 initrd-2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen.img
-rw------- 1 root root 4.0M Feb 11 22:50 initrd-2.6.23.15-137.fc8.img
-rw------- 1 root root 4.0M Mar 7 05:36 initrd-2.6.24.3-12.fc8.img
drwx------ 2 root root 12K Jan 2 10:12 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9M Feb 12 12:36 vmlinuz-2.6.21-2957.fc8xen
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9M Feb 15 11:42 vmlinuz-2.6.21.7-2.fc8xen
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9M Feb 10 16:33 vmlinuz-2.6.23.15-137.fc8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9M Feb 26 13:38 vmlinuz-2.6.24.3-12.fc8
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 765K Feb 12 12:45 xen-syms-2.6.21-2957.fc8
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 765K Feb 15 11:56 xen-syms-2.6.21.7-2.fc8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 327K Feb 12 12:01 xen.gz-2.6.21-2957.fc8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 327K Feb 15 11:32 xen.gz-2.6.21.7-2.fc8

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John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
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