On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Ken Teh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for a clever fool-proof way of deselecting the SMP kernel. I've > just installed SL 4.6 under Mac Parallels for a colleague. It doesn't boot > with the SMP kernel; only the UP kernel. So, I selected the appropriate > kernel with the 'default' setting in grub.conf. The question is what > happens when yum updates the kernel. Obviously, it puts the new kernels (up > and smp) at the top of the list. Can I rely on the order of the kernels > listed in grub.conf? Does it alter the 'default=1' line?
Check the /etc/sysconfig/kernel file and the line DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel. This determines which kernel should be made default upon kernel update(as the name suggests). > One alternative is to remove all smp kernels, add a kernel-smp* to the > yum.cron.excludes so it never updates the virtual SL machine with an SMP > kernel. Yes, you probably want to do that. Akemi
