On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 16:47 +0100, Roberto Malinverni wrote: > Does anybody knows where I can find a descriptions of the use of the > /etc/sysconfig/kernel file and of its syntax? > Googling around I've found some fragments of information, but really not > much. > The file should be involved in determining the default kernel flavour when > installing a new one, in the selection of kernel modules during the initrd > cration, and so on. Should it really do all that? Mine's just go things like this in it: # UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg should make # new kernels the default UPDATEDEFAULT=yes # DEFAULTKERNEL specifies the default kernel package type DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel That's the whole file, by the way. That looks more like something YUM or GRUB pays attention to. I'd expect the files like /boot/config-2.6.18-1.2868.fc6 to have more to do with creating new kernel modules, etc.