[CentOS] CentOS 6 kernel update and grub.conf...

Keith Roberts keith at karsites.net
Fri Aug 5 16:36:20 UTC 2011


On Fri, 5 Aug 2011, John Doe wrote:

> To: Cent O Smailinglist <centos at centos.org>
> From: John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [CentOS] CentOS 6 kernel update and grub.conf...
> 
> Hey,
>
> I ran a yum update and it installed a new kernel.
>
>    ...
>
>    Installed:
>     kernel.x86_64 0:2.6.32-71.29.1.el6  kernel-devel.x86_64 0:2.6.32-71.29.1.el6
>
>
> but it did not modify the grub.conf file.
>
>   #boot=/dev/sda
>   default=0
>   timeout=5
>   splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>   hiddenmenu
>   title CentOS (2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64)
>           root (hd0,0)
>           kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64 ro root=UUID=...
>           initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-71.el6.x86_64.img
>
> Is this the new behavior or...?

I'm only on C5.6 still :)

Have you moved grub.conf at all - like to a different boot 
partition, or changed any symlinks to grub.conf?

I moved my grub.conf to a seperate boot partition some time 
ago, and the rpm installer does not update grub.conf now. So 
in a way that's a mixed blessing, because I can use yum 
update each night, and if there is a kernel update it won't 
actually run the new kernel untill I change the grub.conf 
entry manually.

Kind Regards,

Keith Roberts

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