Re: grub default

[Jeff Vian <jvian10 charter net>]

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 05:42, David Jansen wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 03:17:53PM -0500, Cowles, Steve wrote:
> > I manually edit /etc/grub.conf and change the "default=" setting to boot the
> > kernel image that I want. Remember, the first entry listed is 0, not 1.
> 
> Yes, that's easy enough to edit. However, in RH9 and FC1 the new updated
> kernel always became the default. Why was this changed?
> up2date even suggests users to reboot if it sees a newer kernel is
> installed than the one that is running, but at the reboot the user has
> to select a kernel different from the default. 
> 
> How many users will think they have all the bugfixes in place but are
> actually still running with FC2's orriginal kernel?
> 
> Is there a way to change the behaviour of up2date or rpm at kernel
> upgrades or a way to script detection of a new kernel and modification
> in grub.conf?
> 
> David Jansen
> 

Use "yum update"  it handles making the new kernel the default "by
default" :-)