New kernel, should be the default

Douglas Furlong douglas.furlong at firebox.com
Fri Oct 8 17:06:37 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 18:39 +0200, Matias Féliciano wrote:
> We can expect that new kernels are better (bug or security fix).
> 
> At that time, new installed kernel are not the default.
> 
> $ rpm -q --scripts kernel
> ...
> /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --mkinitrd --depmod --install 2.6.8-1.603
> 
> Why ?
> 
> With FC3, grub show only the default kernel. If you don't take care, you
> can boot with a old kernel (which have a security issue).
> 
> Editing /boog/grub/grub.conf should be require only if something goes
> wrong.
If you use YUM to update your kernel then the new kernel is the default
kernel.

When you use RPM the old kernel is the default.

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Douglas Furlong
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