How to downgrade kernel in F17?

[PompeyBlue]

I am wondering how I go back to an earlier kernel in Fedora 17. I've searched and there's no info out there. One thread discusses it, but descends into questioning why you would want to do it.

The reason I need to go back is because 3.5 breaks the VirtualBox additions, so I want to go to the last 3.4 working kernel. I have tried downgrade:

yum downgrade kernel
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Package kernel-3.3.4-5.fc17.i686 is allowed multiple installs, skipping
Nothing to do

When I try to install 3.4.6 I get this:

yum install kernel-PAE-3.4.6*
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
No package kernel-PAE-3.4.6* available.
Error: Nothing to do

It seems like something which shuld be easy to do?

[MaliCure]

Hi Pompey,

Often you are able to boot a few earlier kernels from the grub menu when the system boots. Fedora keeps the previous kernel available to choose from

(You can see here how to make the previous kernel the default one: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=273347 )

[PompeyBlue]

Unfortunately I did a fresh install and elected to update from repos, so 3.5 is the earliest kernel I've got.

[MaliCure]

No useful kernel version in the list that you get when executing:

yum list available kernel.\* --showduplicates

[PompeyBlue]

I get this, but still can't install a different version:

[root@ ~]# yum list kernel* --showduplicates
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
kernel-PAE.i686 3.5.0-2.fc17 @updates
kernel-PAE-devel.i686 3.5.0-2.fc17 @updates
kernel-devel.i686 3.5.0-2.fc17 @updates
kernel-headers.i686 3.5.0-2.fc17 @updates
Available Packages
kernel.i686 3.3.4-5.fc17 fedora
kernel.i686 3.5.0-2.fc17 updates
kernel-PAE.i686 3.3.4-5.fc17 fedora
kernel-PAE.i686 3.5.0-2.fc17 updates
kernel-PAE-devel.i686 3.3.4-5.fc17 fedora
kernel-PAE-devel.i686 3.5.0-2.fc17 updates
kernel-PAE-modules-extra.i686 3.3.4-5.fc17 fedora
kernel-PAE-modules-extra.i686 3.5.0-2.fc17 updates
kernel-PAEdebug.i686 3.3.4-5.fc17 fedora
kernel-PAEdebug.i686 3.5.0-2.fc17 updates
kernel-PAEdebug-devel.i686 3.3.4-5.fc17 fedora
kernel-PAEdebug-devel.i686 3.5.0-2.fc17 updates
kernel-PAEdebug-modules-extra.i686 3.3.4-5.fc17 fedora
kernel-PAEdebug-modules-extra.i686 3.5.0-2.fc17 updates
kernel-debug.i686 3.3.4-5.fc17 fedora
kernel-debug.i686 3.5.0-2.fc17 updates
kernel-debug-devel.i686 3.3.4-5.fc17 fedora
kernel-debug-devel.i686 3.5.0-2.fc17 updates
kernel-debug-modules-extra.i686 3.3.4-5.fc17 fedora
kernel-debug-modules-extra.i686 3.5.0-2.fc17 updates
kernel-devel.i686 3.3.4-5.fc17 fedora
kernel-devel.i686 3.5.0-2.fc17 updates
kernel-doc.noarch 3.3.4-5.fc17 fedora
kernel-doc.noarch 3.5.0-2.fc17 updates
kernel-headers.i686 3.3.4-5.fc17 fedora
kernel-headers.i686 3.5.0-2.fc17 updates
kernel-modules-extra.i686 3.3.4-5.fc17 fedora
kernel-modules-extra.i686 3.5.0-2.fc17 updates
kernel-tools.i686 3.3.4-5.fc17 fedora
kernel-tools.i686 3.5.0-2.fc17 updates
kernel-tools-devel.i686 3.3.4-5.fc17 fedora
kernel-tools-devel.i686 3.5.0-2.fc17 updates
[root@ ~]# man yum
[root@ ~]# yum install kerel*PAE*3.3.4*
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
No package kerel*PAE*3.3.4* available.
Error: Nothing to do

[MaliCure]

You made a typo by the way.
Try:

yum install kernel-PAE-3.3.4-5.fc17

When this works, and you choose this kernel from the grub menu, you will probably find that you need a few older non-native kernel modules as well. They should be available as well, and can be found and installed the same way

[PompeyBlue]

Woot! That worked. Thanks!