It's kind of like windows safe mode boot. The recovery kernel boots with enough stuff for you to do maintenance or recovery work on your system. Like performing a chkdisk or maybe restoring a tar file or other things. On Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 8:37 AM Michael wrote: > yes.... but I was wondering about the recovery kernels. > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:29 AM Bob Elzer wrote: > >> There is a setting that lets you specify how many previous versions of >> the kernel to show on the boot screen. Whenever the kernel is updated the >> new kernel will be listed as the first and selected kernel on the boot >> screen, with the previous kernels listed below it followed by the recovery >> kernel. >> >> You can interrupt the countdown to the boot process by hitting the ESC >> key. >> >> After which you can use the up and down keys to select the kernel you >> want to boot followed by the return key. >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 7:12 AM Michael wrote: >> >>> There ia a screen in which you can select which kernel you wish to load. >>> it gives a list of kernels and every other one is a recovery kernel. How do >>> you use those kernels? >>> >>> -- >>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss