Tony Nelson escribío: > 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. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242047 Happened to me also. -- Brian Millett - [ Matthew Stoner (to Garibaldi), "Soul Mates"] "Hey, how about I call you an idiot in public and you can convict me for revealing state secrets."
