yum updated grub.conf badly

[Michael Hennebry]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 11:00:04AM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> > Previously, this had been caused by
> > trying to run an SMP kernel on a hyper-threaded cpu.
> > For some evil reason, the SMP kernel was the default.
> > Whoever made that decision should be shot.
>
> Rather than resorting to violence, try changing "DEFAULTKERNEL" in
> the file </etc/sysconfig/kernel>.

To what?
Obviously not kernel-smp.

> > I suppose I implicitly asked for a kernel update when running yum,
> > but even so, it shouldn't make the default something that doesn't work.
> > That is evil.
>
> It's beyond good and evil. How was yum or rpm or anything else supposed to
> know it didn't work on your particular system?

The good and evil is at the human where the decision got made.

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