kernel-smp not new default in grub after yum update
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Mon Feb 7 10:42:28 UTC 2005
Jeff Vian wrote:
> The spec for the install/update of grub.conf does that.
> In FC3 the new kernel stanza is written as the first entry and pushes
> the others down. The default is not changed from 0 so it automatically
> selects the new one to boot.
>
> I believe that FC2 also wrote the new one as the first entry in
> grub.conf, but it updated the default to point to the old entry and you
> had to manually select the new kernel until you updated grub.conf to
> have the new one as the default.
In FC3 this behaviour is controlled by the setting of the variables
UPGRADEDEFAULT and DEFAULTKERNEL in /etc/sysconfig/kernel, as mentioned
in the release notes.
Paul.
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