update to kernel-2.6.6-1.427 doesn't change grub default kernel

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Sat Jun 12 11:57:33 UTC 2004



Bill Beeman wrote:

>"Marc Williams" <marcw at onlymooo.com> wrote in message
>news:pan.2004.06.11.23.27.56.521499 at onlymooo.com...
>On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 07:07:17 +0800, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:
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>>Hi, I did a 'sudo up2date -u' on my FC2 box and it picked up the recent
>>kernel errata 2.6.6-1.427. However, at the end of the up2date command. I
>>found that the default kernel in grub.conf still pointed to the original
>>FC2 kernel 2.6.5-1.358
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>>Shouldn't up2date automatically switch the default to the most recently
>>applied kernel or is this left for users to tweak manually
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>I noticed the same thing using up2date.
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>It is listing the later kernel first in grub.conf, but leaving default =1.
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>Edit grub.conf and set default=0
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>This will cause it to boot the kernel listed first.
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>grub.conf should be found in /boot/grub
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>Bill
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I don't use up2date, but yum does it correctly and sets the new kernel 
as the default.

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