Re: [CentOS] New /boot/message file?

2012-07-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, William Hooper wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: William Hooper whooper...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] New /boot/message file? On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net wrote: I've not broken the system, it's just I want

Re: [CentOS] New /boot/message file?

2012-07-16 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Reindl Harald wrote: To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Reindl Harald h.rei...@thelounge.net Subject: Re: [CentOS] New /boot/message file? Am 15.07.2012 22:51, schrieb Keith Roberts: On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Reindl Harald wrote: *snip* but what

[CentOS] New /boot/message file?

2012-07-15 Thread Keith Roberts
I've just updated my 5.8 box and there's a new kernel to be installed. Looking at /boot/ directory I see this file called message: -rw-r--r--root root 80032 Mar 12 2009 message Can anyone twll me what this message file is for please? Is this a new grub or kernel file? Kind

Re: [CentOS] New /boot/message file?

2012-07-15 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 07/15/2012 02:10 PM, Keith Roberts wrote: I've just updated my 5.8 box and there's a new kernel to be installed. Looking at /boot/ directory I see this file called message: -rw-r--r--root root 80032 Mar 12 2009 message Can anyone twll me what this message file is for

Re: [CentOS] New /boot/message file?

2012-07-15 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 07/15/2012 07:10 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: I've just updated my 5.8 box and there's a new kernel to be installed. Looking at /boot/ directory I see this file called message: -rw-r--r--root root 80032 Mar 12 2009 message Can anyone twll me what this message file is for

Re: [CentOS] New /boot/message file?

2012-07-15 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 07/15/2012 08:06 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 07/15/2012 07:10 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: I've just updated my 5.8 box and there's a new kernel to be installed. Looking at /boot/ directory I see this file called message: -rw-r--r--root root 80032 Mar 12 2009 message Can

Re: [CentOS] New /boot/message file?

2012-07-15 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Johnny Hughes wrote: To: centos@centos.org From: Johnny Hughes joh...@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] New /boot/message file? On 07/15/2012 07:10 AM, Keith Roberts wrote: I've just updated my 5.8 box and there's a new kernel to be installed. Looking at /boot

Re: [CentOS] New /boot/message file?

2012-07-15 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Reindl Harald wrote: *snip* you really think you are better writing grub.conf manually than grubby will do? if there are issues with a newer kernel then boot with the old one, that is why the previous does not get removed on updates how will you ever notice problems

Re: [CentOS] New /boot/message file?

2012-07-15 Thread Keith Roberts
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012, Reindl Harald wrote: *snip* but what is the point to break your system to not automatically maintain grub.conf in this context? what is the advantage have to add the new kernel manually to the config? Good point again Reindl. I've not broken the system, it's just I

Re: [CentOS] New /boot/message file?

2012-07-15 Thread William Hooper
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Keith Roberts ke...@karsites.net wrote: I've not broken the system, it's just I want to decide when the new kernel should be booted. The edit the /etc/sysconfig/kernel file and tell the system not to update the default kernel to the newly install one. --