>>Jerry Geis wrote: >>/ Hi, />>/ />>/ I have a need to install 2.6.18 kernel. />>/ />>/ After I configure, make, make modules, make install (all that is good). />>/ The last thing I do is 'make install'. This also modifies grub.conf and />>/ adds an entry for my new kernel. However it leaves the old kernel as still />>/ the default. Is there a way to have it automatically set my new kernel />>/ as the default in grub.conf so when I reboot the new kernel is active. />>/ / >Edit grub.conf >Set default=x where x is the menu order position of 2.6.18. The order >starts from 0. >eg: >default=0 >title CentOS (2.6.18) > kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.6.18 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > initrd (hd0,1)/initrd-2.6.18.img >title CentOS (2.6.9-42.0.3.plus.c4) > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.3.plus.c4 ro >root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.0.3.plus.c4.img >title CentOS (2.6.9-42.0.3.EL) > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.0.3.EL.img >title CentOS-4 x86_64 (2.6.9-42.EL) > root (hd0,1) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.EL ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 > initrd /initrd-2.6.9-42.EL.im Feizhou, Thanks for the reply.... What you suggest is what I am doing now. Editing grub.conf by hand. I was hoping there was a command line method that would automatically do this editing for me when I do the "make install" and set the default=X to my new kernel I just built. Is there anything like that? Thanks, Jerry