> Then I tried Michael's script.  At first, I received complaints about "-V" not a valid option for sort.  Thought he might be trying to do a unique sort, so changed the -V to -u and ran it again.  Still no luck.
>
> So the machine won't reboot on its own.  I've got to manually select the oldest kernel to get it to boot.
>
> Anyone know a fix for this issue?  This isn't the Scientific Linux most people with this problem was running - this is Centos.  So I'm at a loss, but need to fix it.
>
> Chuck
>
>
> ---------- Original Message -----------
> From: "James" <[email protected]>
> To: "'BlueOnyx General Mailing List'" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:23:25 -0400
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:12559] Re: Kernel Question
>
> > After doing what you did, if you should still end up with any missing
> > entries in future you can do this (courtesy of Michael in older thread):
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > # Setup newest Kernel as default:
> > KERNEL=`ls -k1 /boot/vmlinuz-*| sed s#/boot/vmlinuz-##|sort -V -r|head -1`
> > /sbin/new-kernel-pkg --package kernel --mkinitrd --depmod --install \
> > --make-default $KERNEL
> > cat /etc/grub.conf | grep -v ^serial |grep -v ^terminal >
> > /boot/grub/grub.conf
------- End of Original Message -------

>
> What about a lower case      -v
>
> Ken Marcus


Thanks for the suggestion Ken. 

But the MAN page on "sort" doesn't show a lower-case "v" switch.  I still tried it mind you, but got the same error as the capital "V" - "invalid option".


Chuck


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