Don't worry about it.  You're one of the 8 billion+ people on this planet who make mistakes or overlook something they later see as obvious. On 11/15/19 9:01 AM, Michael wrote: > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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