[CentOS] Installing from USB flash drive

Wed May 26 18:57:32 UTC 2010
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Bowie wrote:
> m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>> Bowie wrote:
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>> Once it's on, it's fairly stable... though the update of the kernel does
>> *not* always work correctly. With nearly 200 machines that I'm rolling
>> out
>> updates to, not infrequently, I'll see that the default= line in
>> /etc/grub.conf is reset... to the last kernel,rather than the current,
>> or
>> to the debug kernel. I always have to check to verify that it's pointing
>> correctly before rebooting.
>>
> 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?

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