On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 05:42, David Jansen wrote: > On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 03:17:53PM -0500, Cowles, Steve wrote: > > I manually edit /etc/grub.conf and change the "default=" setting to boot the > > kernel image that I want. Remember, the first entry listed is 0, not 1. > > Yes, that's easy enough to edit. However, in RH9 and FC1 the new updated > kernel always became the default. Why was this changed? > up2date even suggests users to reboot if it sees a newer kernel is > installed than the one that is running, but at the reboot the user has > to select a kernel different from the default. > > How many users will think they have all the bugfixes in place but are > actually still running with FC2's orriginal kernel? > > Is there a way to change the behaviour of up2date or rpm at kernel > upgrades or a way to script detection of a new kernel and modification > in grub.conf? > > David Jansen > Use "yum update" it handles making the new kernel the default "by default" :-)
