[Centos] Changing booted Kernel with grub

Tue Jan 25 04:54:24 UTC 2005
Beau Henderson <silentbob at gmail.com>

1. Why the SMP and NON-SMP kernel ? Just one or the other is needed,
not both. SMP = multi-processor or hyperthreading only ( though may be
fine with non SMP .. I haven't examined the .config or the sources ).
2. Why the manual Sytem.map to System.map-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL symlink,
also note the spelling.

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Beau Henderson
http://www.iminteractive.net

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 15:40:05 +1100, Wayne Bastow <ayu.njoman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have updated the kernel to 2.4.21-27.0.2 on Centos 3.4 (was 3.3 when
> I did the kernel update) and have modified grub.conf to use the single
> CPU kernel:
> 
> # 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/cciss/c0d0p6
> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/cciss/c0d0
> default=1
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title CentOS (2.4.21-27.0.2.EL)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL ro root=LABEL=/
>         initrd /initrd-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL.img
> title CentOS (2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/
>         initrd /initrd-2.4.21-27.0.2.ELsmp.img
> title CentOS (2.4.21-27.0.1.EL)
> .......
> 
> I then created a new symbolic link for Sytem.map in /boot to point to
> System.map-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL.
> 
> When I reboot the 2.4.21-27.0.1.ELsmp is used and System.map has been
> changed to point to the smp kernel.
> 
> Is there a step I'm missing out?
> 
> BTW, the upgrade from 3.3 to 3.4 using yum seems to have worked - I'm
> running Oracle on the server.
> 
> Thanks,
> Wayne
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