[CentOS] kernel update doesn't update grub.conf

[Barry Brimer]

Quoting Robert <kerplop at sbcglobal.net>:

> William L. Maltby wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 21:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> >
> >> Barry Brimer wrote on Tue, 07 Apr 2009 10:29:31 -0500:
> >>
> >>
> >>> /etc/grub.conf should be a symlink to /boot/grub/grub.conf.  If for some
> reason
> >>> it is not, correct it, or look directly in /boot/grub/grub.conf and see
> if the
> >>> kernel was added there.
> >>>
> >> Sorry, I was talking about /boot/grub/grub.conf. I wasn't aware that one
> could
> >> assume I was talking about /etc/grub.conf.
> >>
> >
> > Well, JIC, make sure yoyr /boot/grub entries look like this.
> >
> > ls -l /boot/grub/[gm]*
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    8 May  9  2008 /boot/grub/grub.conf ->
> > menu.lst
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1108 Apr  2 21:33 /boot/grub/menu.lst
> >
> > I'm not sure why it's set this way, probably some historical reason.
> >
> > I only mention because I don't even know which the update process
> > affects. If they aren't linked, I guess that might cause a problem.
> >
> I have long been amazed at that relationship.  Mine is not the same as
> yours. (CentOS 5.3 totally updated)
>
>         [root at mavis download]# ls -l /boot/grub/[gm]* /etc/grub.conf
>         -rw------- 1 root root 2378 Apr  2 15:07 /boot/grub/grub.conf
>         lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   11 Aug  7  2008 /boot/grub/menu.lst ->
>         ./grub.conf
>         lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   22 Aug  7  2008 /etc/grub.conf ->
>         ../boot/grub/grub.conf
>         [root at mavis download]#
>
> So, while menu.lst is the real file and  grub.conf  is a symlink to it
> on your system, the opposite is true on mine. I have no idea how that
> happened. I do know that when I do a manual edit, I don't go through a
> "who's on first" routine. I just edit one of them and move on to the
> next windmill.

According to /sbin/new-kernel-pkg .. the file that actually gets updated on x86
and x86_64 systems is /boot/grub/grub.conf