m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote, On 11/01/2010 02:14 PM: > It appears that if I do anything to grub.conf, say, take out the rhgb > quiet, after every succeding kernel update, I have to manually edit > grub.conf, because the kernel update - maybe the post install script? - > will set the default to be the previous kernel. Has anyone got a solution > to this, so that a kernel update will give the new kernel as the default? > > mark > Are you sure you did not also have a change from/to Xen at one point in the system's life? i.e. /etc/sysconfig/kernel has DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-xen instead of DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel or UPDATEDEFAULT=no ???? I ask because for me it was a system that had once _been_ xen, and was not anymore, which kept hanging on to old kernels, Really embarrassingly old kernels [ which fully proved to me that yum will not replace the running kernel ]. And I have never had a problem getting rid of rhgb, which I do on all most all machines I admin. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter