Hi there, Well, I updated it today, and everything was standard installed, and it just went fine, also selecting default the newest kernel. So maybe you changed something? Greetings, Jim. > On 8/2/07, Frank Elsner <Frank.Elsner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 18:55:01 +0200 Casey Stamper wrote: >> > I got home today and updated my laptop w/the latest kernel and other >> > updates. When I rebooted, grub automtically went back to the previous >> > kernel. I had to manually choose the new one. It's easy enough to fix >> in >> > menu.lst but I thought the default behaviour was to make the latest >> kernel >> > the default. >> >> You can tune this within file /etc/sysconfig/kernel >> >> Mine reads >> >> # UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg should make >> # new kernels the default >> UPDATEDEFAULT=yes >> >> # DEFAULTKERNEL specifies the default kernel package type >> DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel >> >> >> --Frank Elsner >> >> > That's nice to know but why did the supposedly default behavior change? > I've > been through several kernel updates on this machine and IIRC, they booted > from the newest kernel upon restart (although I *could* be wrong on this). > I > know FC6 booted the newest. I run a lot of different distros so maybe my > last two or three kernel updates on F7 are getting mixed up in my mind > w/the > default behavior of other distros. I'll definitely pay closer attention to > it next time and tweak /etc/sysconfig/kernel if necessary. > > -- > Casey Stamper > http://www.stampersite.com/wordpress > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
