GRUB and the last FC4 kernel

[Mike McCarty]

Hoffmann wrote:

>--- Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>
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>
>>On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 13:15 -0700, Hoffmann wrote:
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[snip]

>>>/boot/, eg.
>>>#          root (hd0,2)
>>>#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro
>>>root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>>>#          initrd /initrd-version.img
>>>#boot=/dev/hda
>>>default=2
>>>y
>>>
This says to boot entry number 2 by default.

>>>timeout=10
>>>splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>>>hiddenmenu
>>>title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1387_FC4)
>>>
This is entry 0.

>>>	root (hd0,2)
>>>	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1387_FC4 ro
>>>root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
>>>	initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1387_FC4.img
>>>title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
>>>      
>>>
This is entry 1.

>>>	root (hd0,2)
>>>	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro
>>>root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
>>>	initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
>>>title Windows
>>>      
>>>
This is entry 2, the default.

>>>	rootnoverify (hd0,1)
>>>	chainloader +1
>>>title Other
>>>      
>>>
This is entry 3.

>>>	rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>>>	chainloader +1
>>>      
>>>
>>"rpm -e kernel-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4" should be fine.
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[snip]

>Hi Paul,
>
>Many thanks. I uninstalled the precious FC4 kernel
>sucessfuly, and now I have just the new FC4 kernel and
>my windows partiction. All is fine. 
>However, I didn't understood the logic of the
>'changing number' you mentioned above.
>Could you, please, explain me again?
>Thanks! 
>Hoffmann 
>  
>
When you commented entry # 2, then the next entry, "Other"
moved up from being entry #3 to being entry #2, the default.

Mike

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