[CentOS] system "stuck" with 2.6.18-128 kernel. how to move to2.6.18-194.17?

Mon Oct 4 17:53:32 UTC 2010
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

Mark wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Brunner, Brian T.
> <BBrunner at gai-tronics.com> wrote:
>>
>> BINGO!  Only one time did the word 'title' appear in his grub.conf.
>>
>> So I looked at the LAST not FIRST 'kernel' line after 'title' and noted
>> that the 'kernel' info there matched what actually booted.
>>
>> I surmise that grub reads the title-to-title section top-to-bottom
>> discarding any earlier 'kernel' line if it hits a subsequent 'kernel'
>> line.
>
> NOT.
>
> The "boot=/dev/xxx" and "default=0" lines tell grub which kernel to
> boot from which device, and it looks for the title with that
> reference, 0-origin.  Only if that boot fails does grub look elsewhere
> for what to do.  This is fairly well documented in 'info grub.'
>
> The (far) more likely explanation is either that the md raid is messed
> up or there are multiple possible boot partitions that do not match
> what the machine sees and what the user is looking at.

I was sorta considering suggesting he run grub-install, and see if that
fixed it.

         mark