|From: Marcus Meissner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
|All other distros do the same as far as I know.
|Care to give an example where this is not the case?

On our RHEL production systems we download the kernel
and then install them via 'rpm -i <kernel>'
Then it leaves both kernels bootable via grub.
The new "one becomes default" but in case of problems
the old system is only a reboot away. with a lot of
different 3rd party raid-stuff and disk kontrollers.
I would never have dared to update unless I know the
old kernel/drivers are available.

If you upgrade (-U) you replace the old kernel.

I seem to recall this was a part of the RHCE exam.

Disks today are so big that there are very few reasons to
keep tiny /boot partitions so you can't manage several
kernels around.

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