Change grub.conf defaults

[Tom Horsley]

On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:27:49 -0600
Petrus de Calguarium wrote:

> When a new kernel is installed grub.conf stupidly gets set do default=1, 
> meaning the old and not the new kernel will be used upon rebooting. How can 
> I change this so that grub.conf will keep default=0, like I have expressly 
> set it?

Do you (or did you once) have xen kernels installed? I had a big problem
with it always wanting to set the default to the xen kernel. There is
a file named (i think) /etc/sysconfig/kernel which has some definitions
that influence which kernel is set as the default when kernel updates
happen.