[CentOS] kernel update does not update grub boot list ...

Tue Jan 26 13:23:01 UTC 2016
lejeczek <peljasz at yahoo.co.uk>

On 26/01/16 12:23, Philippe BOURDEU d'AGUERRE wrote:
> Le 26/01/2016 12:53, lejeczek a écrit :
>> .. in that expected way where newly installed kernel is 
>> set to boot as
>> default.
>>
>> would you suggest where to look, what to check?
>
> In /etc/sysconfig/kernel :
>
> # UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg should make
> # new kernels the default
> UPDATEDEFAULT=yes
>
>
gee, kernel-uek (for those of us who use it) puts in:

DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-uek

replacing usual.
Strange! though cause after updates (even with 
UPDATEDEFAULT=yes) default was kept to be still distro's 
(non-uek) default kernel, only older version.
but reverse to:

DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel

and it works,
seems like a tiny bug, either on grub's or kernel-uek 
packages' side.

thanks man