Strange grub behavior w/new 2.6.22.1-41 kernel

[Casey Stamper]

>
> > On 8/2/07, Frank Elsner <Frank.Elsner at tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 18:55:01 +0200 Casey Stamper wrote:
> >> > I got home today and updated my laptop w/the latest kernel and other
> >> > updates. When I rebooted, grub automtically went back to the previous
> >> > kernel. I had to manually choose the new one. It's easy enough to fix
> >> in
> >> > menu.lst but I thought the default behaviour was to make the latest
> >> kernel
> >> > the default.
> >>
> >> You can tune this within file /etc/sysconfig/kernel
> >>
> >> Mine reads
> >>
> >> # UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg should make
> >> # new kernels the default
> >> UPDATEDEFAULT=yes
> >>
> >> # DEFAULTKERNEL specifies the default kernel package type
> >> DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel
> >>
> >>
> >> --Frank Elsner
> >>
> >>
> > That's nice to know but why did the supposedly default behavior change?
> > I've
> > been through several kernel updates on this machine and IIRC, they
> booted
> > from the newest kernel upon restart (although I *could* be wrong on
> this).
> > I
> > know FC6 booted the newest. I run a lot of different distros so maybe my
> > last two or three kernel updates on F7 are getting mixed up in my mind
> > w/the
> > default behavior of other distros. I'll definitely pay closer attention
> to
> > it next time and tweak /etc/sysconfig/kernel if necessary.
> >
>
>
> On 8/2/07, Jim van Wel <jim at coolzero.info> wrote:Hi there,
>
> Well, I updated it today, and everything was standard installed, and it
> just went fine, also selecting default the newest kernel. So maybe you
> changed something?
>
> Greetings,
> Jim.


That's odd. I've never messed with /etc/sysconfig/kernel but the old kernel
was definitely the default after installation of the new kernel. I didn't
change anything after the install/update - just rebooted to test the new
kernel (which I had to select manually).


-- 
Casey Stamper
http://www.stampersite.com/wordpress
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