Thanks I should have been smart enough to realize that On Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 11:00 AM Bob Elzer wrote: > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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