Akemi Yagi wrote: > 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 Sure: kernel-2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 kernel-2.6.18-194.el5 kernel-2.6.18-194.17.1.el5 kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 kernel-doc-2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 I really did say it was a new server.... mark