Yum kernel upgrades don't boot

[Reindl Harald]

Am 19.05.2013 03:40, schrieb Bill Davidsen:
> It appears the when a kernel upgrade is applied by yum, the rebuild of grub2.conf seems to reset the kernel command
> lines to default, dropping options to use working video and network drivers and stable clocks. Even the vital
> "nomodeset" option is dropped from the old stanzas in the original grub2.config. Is this part of the war on using
> vendor drivers? Booting into a system with an unstable clock, no video even text in runlevel 3, and no working
> network doesn't make a upgrade easy.
> 
> So is dropping the kernel command line options a bug, or deliberate policy?

none of them

never ever on more than 20 setups over more than 7 years
any kernel update with yum did touch the grub2.conf

in every case the params of the running kernel where taken
for the new one by grubby

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 263 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20130519/6e118721/attachment.sig>