> Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I recently looked at my grub.conf file (attached), and noticed some odd > > things about it. The system is vanilla FC7 with latest upgrades; the > > kernel has be upgraded a number of times. The odd things are: > > > > (1) The default kernel for loading appears to be an xen version. Why is > > this? I gather that xen is a little more flexible but less efficient > > than the standard kernel. I never use this flexibility, as most users > > never do -- why is this the default for loading? Timothy Murphy wrote: > I think this was a glitch in the Fedora 7 installation. > I got a xen kernel too, which I yum removed, > and then when I ran yum update it seemed to get the latest version > (vmlinuz-2.6.21-1.3228.fc7). If this is the case, everybody running FC7 should check their /boot partition and grub.conf to see what they've got installed and which kernel is running. I only stumbled on this because I happened to look at grub.conf for other reasons. Surely there are *lots* of others. jon
