Hello All,
I can't update my Fedora 17 box until sometime in July due to issues I won't bore you with.
In the meantime I have another problem. Some time ago I had a crash during a yum update, the net result of which was the fact that the kernel it was installing at the time became corrupted (amongst other problems). I can boot into the previous kernel and everything works fine, except when I reboot. Naturally it wants to boot into the "latest" kernel.
I have set the grub timeout to 5 seconds so I can select the older kernel and all is well.
However, I thought I would be clever and set it to automatically boot to the second kernel, so I edited /etc/default/grub and changed GRUB_DEFAULT=saved to GRUB_DEFAULT=1.
I then ran grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg and rebooted. Now I appear to have lost my earlier kernel options and it boots into the corrupted version.
[edit] No wait - It seems I have to go into "advanced" options from grub where I can pick the older kernel [/edit]
What did I do wrong - and how do I get it to default to my working kernel?
Thanks
Mark
=============8<=================================================== cat /etc/default/grub GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Fedora" GRUB_DEFAULT=saved #GRUB_DEFAULT=2 GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 SYSFONT=True KEYTABLE=uk rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rhgb quiet" #GRUB_THEME="/boot/grub2/themes/system/theme.txt" =============8<===================================================