HEADS UP! -- Re: Kernel versions, xen, grub.conf, yum upgrades

[Rahul Sundaram]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> Another thing to watch for: If you were previously running xen
> kernel, and you install a non-xen kernel and remove xen, odds
> are good that the file /etc/sysconfig/kernel will still have a
> line in it that says something like:
> 
> DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-xen
> 
> This will then cause the scripts which attempt to auto edit
> the grub.conf file when updating kernels to get very confused
> and your newly updated kernel will probably not wind up
> as the default, so you'll think you updated, but you'll wind
> up booting the old kernel after all :-).
> 
> Change the sysconfig line to just:
> 
> DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel
> 
> and updates will act more normal-like.

Have you file any bug report?

Rahul