On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:31 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > 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. In other words, the system in question has never seen non-CentOS kernels? Could you show us the output returned by: rpm -qa kernel\* | sort Akemi