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

Bill Beeman bbeeman at beemangroup.com
Sat Jun 12 03:38:28 UTC 2004


"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:

> 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
>
> Shouldn't up2date automatically switch the default to the most recently
> applied kernel or is this left for users to tweak manually

I noticed the same thing using up2date.

It is listing the later kernel first in grub.conf, but leaving default =1.

Edit grub.conf and set default=0

This will cause it to boot the kernel listed first.

grub.conf should be found in /boot/grub

Bill








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