m.roth@5-cent.us wrote, On 11/01/2010 02:14 PM:
It appears that if I do anything to grub.conf, say, take out the rhgb quiet, after every succeding kernel update, I have to manually edit grub.conf, because the kernel update - maybe the post install script? - will set the default to be the previous kernel. Has anyone got a solution to this, so that a kernel update will give the new kernel as the default?
mark
Are you sure you did not also have a change from/to Xen at one point in the system's life?
i.e. /etc/sysconfig/kernel has DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-xen instead of DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel
or UPDATEDEFAULT=no
???? I ask because for me it was a system that had once _been_ xen, and was not anymore, which kept hanging on to old kernels, Really embarrassingly old kernels [ which fully proved to me that yum will not replace the running kernel ].
And I have never had a problem getting rid of rhgb, which I do on all most all machines I admin.