> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:53 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > >>> Looks like the new kernel stanza gets added to lilo.conf >>> automatically, but the default needs to be changed manually. >> >> That's ok, I randomly see that with grub, too. > > grub is supposed to set the default kernel to the newly installed one > (type) as specified on the DEFAULTKERNEL= line in > /etc/sysconfig/kernel (for example, kernel, kernel-xen, kernel-PAE,). > Yes, well, the emphasis in your statement is "supposed to". It does not always happen, to the point where when I do a kernel update, I check. 10%? 15% of the time, it doesn't. mark