Somebody in the thread at some point said: > That's odd. I've never messed with /etc/sysconfig/kernel but the old > kernel was definitely the default after installation of the new kernel. > I didn't change anything after the install/update - just rebooted to > test the new kernel (which I had to select manually). I've seen this happen sometimes over the past few years. There's a little utility called "grubby" which has the job of creating new stanzas in /boot/grub/grub.conf by inheriting the old default stanza. Maybe due to edits, blank lines or whatever in grub.conf it loses its count of stanzas or somesuch. -Andy