[CentOS] Installing from USB flash drive

Wed May 26 20:07:56 UTC 2010
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On 5/26/2010 2:37 PM, JohnS wrote:
>
>>> And, in fact, that is exactly what happened.  The default= line was set
>>> to 1, so it booted the old kernel instead of the new one.  Other than
>>> that, it seems to be fine.  I wonder what causes that?  I've never
>>> noticed that behavior in my other systems.  (But maybe I should go check
>>> now...)
>>
>> I have *no* idea. I've even seen it pointing to 2, or 4. Anyone here have
>> any idea why it wouldn't *always* change the default to 0?
>>
>>         mark
> ----
> Where did you get the kernel from?  There is a reason why I ask this
> because all installed kernels I have installed that were built by CentOS
> do the right thing.  As in update the boot sequence for you.
>
> The exception is The Upstream Real Time Kernel does not do this and is
> docoed.
>
> Now the PAE Kernel I can not speak for because I do not use it.  I only
> utilize the pae form for 32 bit under the RT Kernel which pae is built
> into for 32bits.

I think this fails where you initially install a non-PAE kernel and 
later add RAM and change to the PAE version.

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   Les Mikesell
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