YUM-Kernel update?

[Gustavo Seabra]

Vinicius wrote:

> Benjamin Sailer escreveu:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 08:07:54 -0600, Dave McCann 
>>> <langleyfan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>  > the problem that arises during update is that the old kernel is
>
>> removed.  So when You do not reboot the machine, it might get into
>> trouble when it e.g. tries do load a new kernel module after the
>> update and all it finds in /lib/modules aer the new version's
>> kernel-objects.
>>
>> Therefore the default behaviour is to install the new kernel as a
>> default, which (hopefully) manages to boot during the next startup,
>> and leave removal of the old kernel to the user.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Benjamin
>>
>> -- 
>> *****************************************************************
>> Benjamin Sailer
>> eMail: Benjamin.Sailer at ph.tum.de
>> *****************************************************************
>>
>
> The nightly yum by cron automatically install the new kernel, and the 
> old kernel is not removed. The new kernel will be the default at boot 
> time.
>
> This is what happens with my configuration :-).
>
Mine too. But I believe this is a relatively new feature in yum: I've 
seen discussions in the past about not using yum (the old version) for 
kernel updates, because it wouldn't configure Grub correctly. Anyway, it 
seems to work great now.

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