Hello,

Recently I have upgraded KDE Neon kernel to 4.4.0-47 and now vmware is not usable anymore (It freezes guest VMs randomly) so I boot 4.4.0-45 kernel and use VMWare normally. My question is: is there some way to be able to update to newer kernel versions but always have fall back option like 4.4.0-45 kernel version?

P.S. I have read about pinning kernel version but it stops OS from updating kernel and I would like to get newer kernels as they might have security fixes.

Thanks.

My question was based on assuming that KDE Neon will only keep two kernels after new kernel install. Then newest kernel and previous one. But I realized that KDE Neon may keep more kernels and allow to boot any of them. So here is another question how many kernels does KDE Neon keep before starting to delete the oldest one?

Sorry for probably stupid question. Only recently moved to Linux from Windows and trying to learn it.

here is softpedia help link to remove old kernels:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/here-s-h ... 5348.shtml

first make sure you have the "dkms" package installed ,,,it should build the kernel modules for new kernels ,,,,,,,,I think that is what has happened ,,,you got a new kernel and vmware module did not get rebuilt for the new kernel .

Neon (or any *buntu) will not just remove kernels until you tell it to ,,,,,,,, by using "sudo apt-get autoremove --purge" ,,(this will leave the newest 2 kernels) or using a package manager

VINNY