Todd Denniston wrote: > 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? > > Are you sure you did not also have a change from/to Xen at one point in > the system's life? > Nope. It's a new system, not more than a couple months at most, and no, it's never had Xen. The other admin and I can't remember who did the deed, but we installed CentOS 5.5 as a fresh install. <snip> > And I have never had a problem getting rid of rhgb, which I do on all most > all machines I admin. Yeah, I do it on all the servers... and my home system, and my netbook, and that's got the Ubuntu remix, and is that *irritating*, since every time it updates the kernel (too frequently, IMO), it puts the same damn things *back*. mark