On Sat, Apr 26, 2025, at 7:53 AM, Marco Moock wrote: > If you are running an outdated kernel, you should reboot the current one > to be able to properly remove the old kernel during the upgrade.
Just to clear this up... I think this is not actually correct (maybe part of the issue Rajan was having). The upgrade is done "offline", meaning that it is done early in a reboot. So... 1. Run for days or weeks. 2. Do a regular update which adds a new kernel. 3. Do your Fedora version update without bothering to reboot. 4. Last step of that upgrade (before it applies the packages) is a "special" reboot. The reboot that is used to get to the "offline" state where it applies the packages will actually use that new kernel that you installed in step 2. So it should then be able to remove your oldest kernel during the process. The trouble is that you had not rebooted to verify that that new kernel actually runs on your system. If it does not then you might have a failure during the upgrade reboot. Bottom line is back to the simple "best practice" of getting to a fully updated and *reboot* tested state before you do a full version upgrade. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
