Multiple kernels

Question

Today there I Upgraded linux (3.19.3-1 -> 3.19.3-3).
I usually just boot the new kernel without giving it a 2nd thought but today I thought, "What the heck. Let me boot the older kernel."  (I'm just weird that way.)
On Debian I would have a choice of which kernel to  boot. I used Debian Sid for quite a while.
On Arch,it appears that option is not available.
  Now if something had been amiss with the new kernel, for whatever reason and there isn't, you don't have the option of choosing the prior kernel.
Is there a way to have more than one kernel available at boot-time?
Is there a way to NOT REPLACE the older kernel with the upgraded one?
If this is a dumb question, please feel free to hammer my butt.

Answer 1

I found all that I needed here!
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GR … le_entries
EDIT:
Just an FYI I found out that setting
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
did not work in my case, perhaps because the setting I needed resides in a sub-menu, so I tried setting
GRUB_DEFAULT='Arch Linux, with Linux linux'
and got this message when updating grub...
$ sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found background: /boot/grub/dark_linux_custom_arch_linux_d_2560x1440_miscellaneoushi.com.jpg
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-linux-lts.img
Found fallback initramfs image: /boot/initramfs-linux-lts-fallback.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-linux
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
Warning: Please don't use old title `Arch Linux, with Linux linux' for GRUB_DEFAULT, use `Advanced options for Arch Linux>Arch Linux, with Linux linux' (for versions before 2.00) or `gnulinux-advanced-6694029a-1c65-4a5d-ab68-0c4157209a2e>gnulinux-linux-advanced-6694029a-1c65-4a5d-ab68-0c4157209a2e' (for 2.00 or later)
Found fallback initramfs image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
done
Last edited by HarlemSquirrel (2015-04-30 23:24:13)