Thanks again Akemi. When I looked at the bugzilla there was a new fix (for /usr/share/grub/grub-mkconfig_lib) suggested today that worked for me.
Regards Bill Maidment -----Original message----- > From:Akemi Yagi <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday 9th October 2014 23:51 > To: Users, Scientific Linux ([email protected]) > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: SL7rc2 grub2 setting wrong kernel version as default after a > kernel update > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Bill Maidment <[email protected]> wrote: > > After a yum update the latest kernel is set as the second entry rather than > > the first entry in the boot menu. > > This seems to be because it sorts the kernel name using a simple > > alpha-numeric test rather than a more intelligent version number test > > What you are seeing is a known bug as detailed in this upstream bugzilla: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1124074 > > Akemi > >
