Howto update the kernel on ec2

[Bobby Powers]

The AKI used is a grub AKI which loads the Fedora kernel off of the
drive, based on the value in /boot/grub/menu.lst (or maybe grub.conf,
I forget).

On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Sean Darcy <seandarcy2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> First congratulations on a great setup to allow us clueless ones to pick an
> ec2 image and launch it directly into the region of our choice.
>
> Very slick!
>
> But...when you do it you get to a dialog where you can choose the kernel to
> use. The drop down list includes default and a number of AKI's (Amazon
> Kernel Images??) . How do you find out what the AKI's refer to in Fedora
> speak, i.e.  kernel-3.10.10-100.fc18.x86_64 ?? I googled some of the aki's ,
> but found nothing.
>
> Also, since the F19 ec2 instance only has one partition:
>
>  df
> Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/xvda1       2032912 1088744    907784  55% /
> devtmpfs          280236       0    280236   0% /dev
> tmpfs             302208       0    302208   0% /dev/shm
> tmpfs             302208     188    302020   1% /run
> tmpfs             302208       0    302208   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
>
> we should use an hd0 ( and not hd00 ) aki, correct?
>
> But now I have an F19 instance running. Will I need to do some magic to
> upgrade the kernel, or is yum upgrade sufficient?
>
> sean
>
>
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