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 <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> yes.... but I was wondering about the recovery kernels.
>
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 10:29 AM Bob Elzer <bob.elzer@gmail.com> 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 <bmike1@gmail.com> 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?
>>>
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