On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 12:42:49 +0200, David Jansen wrote: > 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? I couldn't agree more. There's even a bug posted about this from a few weeks which no one has yet acted upon: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125840