On 04/07/2012 09:35 AM, Frank Griffin wrote:
On 04/07/2012 08:51 AM, imnotpc wrote:
I just discovered that when a new kernel package is installed the
grub menu entry is added to the bottom rather than the top. The
result is that the original kernel remains the default and new
kernels not used. Most of my systems are only accessed through ssh so
I had no idea the new kernels weren't being used and this only came
to my attention today when another update, probably dbus, broke the
old kernel and hung all my boxes during reboot.
I would think that if you install an update the expectation is that
it would be used by default. I haven't had time to check yet, but
this may also be the cause of other bugs I've been having. Is this a
bug or intended behavior?
Not so. The default uses the symlinks for vmlinuz and initrd which
are version-independent, and the kernel install redefines them to
point to the new kernel. The entry tacked on to the end uses the new
versoins by name, and is there so that after the next new kernel comes
along you'll have an entry to boot this one if you need to.
So the first and last menu entry are the same most recent version? Then
this is probably a bug since the symlink entry won't boot but the entry
at the bottom that lists the version by name boots fine.
