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

Marc Williams marcw at onlymooo.com
Mon Jun 14 19:44:16 UTC 2004


On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 06:57:33 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote:
> Bill Beeman wrote:
>>"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.
>>Edit grub.conf and set default=0
>>  
> I don't use up2date, but yum does it correctly and sets the new kernel as
> the default.
> 

I just did another kernel update (the new 435 kernel) using up2date and
once again the new kernel was not made the default.  I'll have to edit
grub.conf once again.

I wonder if there's something wrong with up2date?  This never used to
happen with FC1...







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