Old kernel version in use even after upgrade. Please suggest.

[Shankar Jha]

     Hi,
Check the file  /boot/grub/grub.conf
Check defaults=0/---
Value should be depend which kernel version you want to use.
--reboot you will be rebooted with new kernel version.

Shankar RHCE


On 6/23/06, Russell Harrison <rtlm10 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> yum and up2date do the same thing.  They install rpms.  updating your rpms
> using up2date should have the same outcome as updating using yum.  We use
> yum for all of our updates and have no problems.
>
> I suspect Mike is correct and you'll need to reboot to pick up the new
> kernel.  It would be wise to check /etc/grub.conf as well just to make
> sure
> the rpm did everything correctly.
>
> On 6/22/06, Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, unix syzadmin wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We recently upgraded a server running RHEL AS3 Update3 to Update5.
> > > We have used yum to update.
> > > I could confirm the upgrade by looking at the /etc/redhat-release
> file.
> > >
> > > # more /etc/redhat-release
> > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 5)
> > >
> > > However the kernel version shown for the uname -a command looks to be
> > still
> > > old.
> > >
> > > # uname -a
> > > Linux bngddia6 2.4.21-20.EL #1 SMP Wed Aug 18 20:30:22 EDT 2004 ia64
> > ia64
> > > ia64 GNU/Linux
> > >
> > > # rpm -qa | grep kernel
> > > kernel-2.4.21-20.EL
> > > kernel-2.4.21-32.EL
> > > kernel-utils-2.4-8.37.12
> > > kernel-source-2.4.21-32.EL
> > > kernel-source-2.4.21-20.EL
> > >
> > >
> > > How do I change this.  Please suggest.
> >
> > Did you reboot after the update?
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