Joe Pruett wrote: >> I have two CentOS 5 machines that I just updated to 5.4. On both >> machines the new kernel was inserted into the top of the list in >> grub.conf. However, on one machine the default line in grub.conf was >> changed such that the old kernel would boot by default. On the other, >> default was left at 0 so the new kernel would boot. This is not the >> first time I've seen this behavior. What controls whether the default >> gets changed on a kernel update? I can't think of anything I would >> have done that would cause these two machines to behave differently. > > make sure that /etc/sysconfig/kernel has the correct type of kernel > configured. if you are running smp, but the config file doesn't say that, > then the grub file won't be updated.
Thanks. /etc/sysconfig/kernel does not exist on the machine that defaults to the old kernel. I don't recall manually creating /etc/sysconfig/kernel on the other machine. Does one of the GUI admin tools create this file? Obviously I can just copy the file, but I'm curious how I got into this situation. -- Galen Seitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
