I've been going along not noticing things happening right under my nose. so imagine my surprise when I discovered last night that my Centos 5 box has installed multiple new kernels over the last few months, as updates come out, and IT IS NOT BOOTING THE NEWST ONE.
grub.conf says to boot kernel 0, and 0 is the newest one. but the one it actually boots is 6 or 8 down the list (clearly I've not been keeping things cleaned up, either).
Below is some info that shows the problem. Can anyone here provide helpful suggestions on (1) why it is doing this, and more importantly (2) how I can make it stop?
Thanks!
uname reports: 2.6.18-164.15.1.el5PAE #1 SMP Wed Mar 17 12:14:29 EDT 2010 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
while /etc/grub.conf contains:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/md0 default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS (2.6.18-194.11.1.el5PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5PAE ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet crashkernel=128M@16M initrd /initrd-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5PAE.img title CentOS (2.6.18-194.11.1.el5) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet crashkernel=128M@16M initrd /initrd-2.6.18-194.11.1.el5.img title CentOS (2.6.18-194.8.1.el5PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5PAE ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet crashkernel=128M@16M initrd /initrd-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5PAE.img title CentOS (2.6.18-194.8.1.el5) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet crashkernel=128M@16M initrd /initrd-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.img title CentOS (2.6.18-194.3.1.el5PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5PAE ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet crashkernel=128M@16M initrd /initrd-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5PAE.img title CentOS (2.6.18-194.3.1.el5) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet crashkernel=128M@16M initrd /initrd-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.img title CentOS (2.6.18-164.15.1.el5) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet crashkernel=128M@16M initrd /initrd-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5.img title CentOS (2.6.18-164.15.1.el5PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5PAE ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet crashkernel=128M@16M initrd /initrd-2.6.18-164.15.1.el5PAE.img title CentOS (2.6.18-164.11.1.el5PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5PAE ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet crashkernel=128M@16M initrd /initrd-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5PAE.img title CentOS (2.6.18-164.11.1.el5) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet crashkernel=128M@16M initrd /initrd-2.6.18-164.11.1.el5.img