newer kernels not shown in grub2 menu

[Chris Murphy]

On Sep 28, 2012, at 4:29 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:

> Dear folks,
> 
> running Fedora 18 alpha and have seen new kernel releases, but the older kernel still boots :(

> How can one make sure that the lastest kernel is booted?
> 
> I don't know if a bugzilla exists for this situation.  Grub 2 appears to be misbehaving as I cannot add FreeBSD to the menu.  The trick worked in Fedora 17 but not here :(

Possibly GRUB2's grub.cfg format has changed, and grubby needs to be updated since that's what updates grub.cfg after a kernel update, not grub2-mkconfig. If you run grub2-mkconfig and if fixes the problem, then that's what's going on. I'd check bugs against grubby before filing a new one.


Chris Murphy