yum updated grub.conf badly

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 05:09:29PM -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> > Rather than resorting to violence, try changing "DEFAULTKERNEL" in
> > the file </etc/sysconfig/kernel>.
> To what?
> Obviously not kernel-smp.

The name of the kernel package you want to be the default. So, just plain
"kernel". I believe this is in the FC3 release notes.
 

> > > I suppose I implicitly asked for a kernel update when running yum, but
> > > even so, it shouldn't make the default something that doesn't work.
> > > That is evil.
> > It's beyond good and evil. How was yum or rpm or anything else supposed to
> > know it didn't work on your particular system?
> The good and evil is at the human where the decision got made.

So, that'd be.... you.

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