At 4:03 PM +0200 6/8/07, antonio montagnani wrote: >2007/6/8, Mark Haney <mhaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> Timothy Murphy wrote: >> > Mark Haney wrote: >> > >> >> I just did a couple more upgrades, these at my house and on every >> >> occasion (without xen kernels installed) grub was NOT updated properly. >> >> In each case (3 in fact) grub.conf was left with the >> >> no-longer-available FC6 kernel as the default boot kernel and I had to >> >> manually edit it. >> > >> > Why was the FC6 kernel no longer available? >> >> No, it was not. >> >> > Was it because you deleted it? >> >> No, because the upgrade deleted it, it was there before the upgrade. >> >> > If so, I would say the error was on your part, not Fedora's. >> >> Good point, except for the fact that it's totally wrong. Do you >> honestly think I'd bitch and moan if it was something I did? I've >> upgraded a dozen machines to F7 now and in 9 of the 12 or 13, grub has >> failed to update properly. Oh, it setup the F7 kernel entry, but didn't >> set it as the default boot kernel. That is a bug. Plain and simple. >> Now /why/ it's a problem on some and not on others, I do not know. If I >> did I'd be posting the answer. >in my experience, during upgrades old kernels are always deleted (that >might be a problem if the only installed kernel wouldn't work (that >never happened to me, but it might happen) >I am not a geek, so I do not know if there is any particular reason to >remove all old kernel.. > >Generally speaking, I find that grub is generally updated >properly...my two cents... It is also my experience that all "old" kernels are deleted. Kernels for a different installation are also removed. As part of my upgrade process I make a backup and also put a copy of /boot into /root, and I restore the kernels from that from the RescueCD. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
