Michael Simpson wrote:
> do you have any mention of the new kernel in /etc/grub.conf?
>
> you might find that the default kernel is still the original one in
> which case there would be a line like
> default=1 in grub.conf
> changing this to default=0 might bring up the new kernel on reboot
> i have an old dual processor box that boots from the previous kernel
> after updates for some reason which i haven't researched
That's probably because your /etc/sysconfig/kernel contains:
# UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg should make
# new kernels the default
UPDATEDEFAULT=no
Make the obvious change of "no" to "yes" if you want newly updated
kernels to become the boot default.
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