vulnerability of Linux

[John Summerfied]

Steffen Kluge wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 13:48 +0800, John Summerfied wrote:
> 
>>FC5 beta 1 installed a kernel on my laptop that does not boot. While 
>>this is a beta and all bets are off, it's perfectly possible that the 
>>same thing could happen in released versions of Fedora Core.
> 
> 
> The installer routine of kernel RPMs always inserts new kernels at
> position 0 into grub.conf. It won't change the number of the default
> kernel, though. I always have my current kernel in a position other than
> 0. That way, I'm never booting a new kernel by default. I try a new
> kernel when I have time to deal with issues and then make it the
> default.
If you're booting number 1 and insert a new number 0, then what happens?

The old number 1 becomes 2, the old 0 is the new 1.

Isn't somthing broken here?


That aside, I think Fedora changes to boot the new kernel regardless of 
what you do in menu,lst. Unless you fiddle in /etc/sysconfig/kernel, and 
Steffen wouldn't be alone in overlooking that.

If not Fedora, then EL.



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