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

[Rainer Traut]

Hi,

Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>>>>>"Bill" == Bill Beeman <bbeeman at beemangroup.com> writes:
> 
> 
>     Bill> "Marc Williams" <marcw at onlymooo.com> wrote in message
>     Bill> news:pan.2004.06.11.23.27.56.521499 at onlymooo.com...
>     Bill> 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
> 
>     Bill> I noticed the same thing using up2date.
> 
>     Bill> It is listing the later kernel first in grub.conf, but
>     Bill> leaving default =1.
> 
> But for me, it isn't even putting an entry in grub.conf.

if you can see the new kernel when doing
rpm -qa|grep kern
then it means there went something wrong in the postinstall rpm
scripts.

Uninstall the kernel, download it manually and do an
rpm -ivvh [kernel-rpm-here]

Iirc this gives you extra verbose output, what goes wrong.

Gruss
Rainer