kernel-smp not new default in grub after yum update

[Paul Howarth]

Jeff Vian wrote:
> The spec for the install/update of grub.conf does that.
> In FC3 the new kernel stanza is written as the first entry and pushes
> the others down.  The default is not changed from 0 so it automatically
> selects the new one to boot.
> 
> I believe that FC2 also wrote the new one as the first entry in
> grub.conf, but it updated the default to point to the old entry and you
> had to manually select the new kernel until you updated grub.conf to
> have the new one as the default. 

In FC3 this behaviour is controlled by the setting of the variables 
UPGRADEDEFAULT and DEFAULTKERNEL in /etc/sysconfig/kernel, as mentioned 
in the release notes.

Paul.