Strange grub behavior w/new 2.6.22.1-41 kernel

Casey Stamper casey.stamper at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 08:21:33 UTC 2007


On 8/2/07, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
>
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>
> > 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).
>
> I've seen this happen sometimes over the past few years.
>
> There's a little utility called "grubby" which has the job of creating
> new stanzas in /boot/grub/grub.conf by inheriting the old default
> stanza.  Maybe due to edits, blank lines or whatever in grub.conf it
> loses its count of stanzas or somesuch.
>
> -Andy


I've had it delete my WinXP stanza before but this is just weird. Like I
said - not a big deal but definitely unexpected.

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Casey Stamper
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