Back-rev kernels do not appear in GRUB menu

[Bevan C. Bennett]

Erik Hemdal wrote:

>>Sure... you yourself answered your question with the use of the word "update".  
>>If you did "rpm -Uvh" instead of "rpm -ivh" that would explain your 
>>problem...
> 
> 
> Yes, this is what I did.  I should have caught that -- guess I'm
> asleep.  Interesting that yum does the same by default, something I
> really don't want it to do.   Thanks for the reminder!

Yum by default does use -i for kernels, which is the generally desired 
behavior. (You don't want to remove an old kernel until -after- you've 
successfully booted into the new one.)