[Arm-dev] Kernel upgrade experience [That was exciting! :-/]

Ian Pilcher arequipeno at gmail.com
Thu May 31 15:25:53 UTC 2018


I just did my first 7.5 kernel upgrade, and I'm happy to report that the
system came right up into the new kernel (the first time that it's ever
done so without manual edits to extlinux.conf).

In fact, I was a bit surprised that it booted the *new* kernel.  Here is
my extlinux.conf:

  # extlinux.conf generated by appliance-creator
  ui menu.c32
  menu autoboot Welcome to 
CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-generic-Minimal-1804. Automatic boot in # 
second{,s}. Press a key for options.
  menu title CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-generic-Minimal-1804 Boot Options.
  menu hidden
  timeout 20
  totaltimeout 600

  default=CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-generic-Minimal-1804 
(4.14.28-201.el7.centos.armv7hl)
  label CentOS Linux (4.14.43-201.el7.armv7hl) 7 (Core)
          kernel /vmlinuz-4.14.43-201.el7.armv7hl
          append ro root=UUID=eb2c92c6-69cd-4a87-982d-900be79e928e 
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
          fdtdir /dtb-4.14.43-201.el7.armv7hl
          initrd /initramfs-4.14.43-201.el7.armv7hl.img

  label CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-generic-Minimal-1804 
(4.14.28-201.el7.centos.armv7hl)
          kernel /vmlinuz-4.14.28-201.el7.centos.armv7hl
          append ro root=UUID=eb2c92c6-69cd-4a87-982d-900be79e928e
          fdtdir /dtb-4.14.28-201.el7.centos.armv7hl
          initrd /initramfs-4.14.28-201.el7.centos.armv7hl.img

Based on the "default=..." line, I expected it to boot
4.14.28-201.el7.centos.armv7hl.  Instead it booted into
4.14.43-201.el7.armv7hl.

So something still seems just a bit off.

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