Re: [CentOS] Kernel updates do not boot - always boots oldest kernel

2023-03-15 Thread Gianluca Cecchi
> > > > I have only changed GRUB_DEFAULT from "saved" to "0" > > > > I have also run > > > > /usr/sbin/grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/centos/grub.cfg > > I may be wrong here but IIRC, using grub2-mkconfig as described in the > Grub docs didn't work for me when I tried to use it years ago. > > I th

Re: [CentOS] Kernel updates do not boot - always boots oldest kernel

2023-03-14 Thread Simon Matter
> Here is the contents of the entire > > cat /etc/default.grub > > GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 > GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)" > GRUB_DEFAULT=0 > GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true > GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console" > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto > rd.md.uuid=066ffecb:69137a0b:4

Re: [CentOS] Kernel updates do not boot - always boots oldest kernel

2023-03-14 Thread Rob Kampen
Here is the contents of the entire cat /etc/default.grub GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)" GRUB_DEFAULT=0 GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto rd.md.uuid=066ffecb:69137a0b:4e579b4f:dfbf1696

Re: [CentOS] Kernel updates do not boot - always boots oldest kernel

2023-03-14 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
Am 14.03.23 um 12:30 schrieb Rob Kampen: OK, found out the problem as to why it doesn't boot any kernel except 36.2 the system reports that it cannot find vmlinuz-3.10.0-1160.88.1.el7.x86_64 or any one of the others, except for vmlinuz-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64 hence a manual selection fro

Re: [CentOS] Kernel updates do not boot - always boots oldest kernel

2023-03-14 Thread Fred
I had something like this happen some years ago on a workstation with 2-disk (software/Linux) RAID 1. Turns out one of the disks had been ejected from the raid array. It was that ejected disk that was getting the updates, but since it was no longer in the array it wasn't being booted, but rather th

Re: [CentOS] Kernel updates do not boot - always boots oldest kernel

2023-03-14 Thread Rob Kampen
OK, found out the problem as to why it doesn't boot any kernel except 36.2 the system reports that it cannot find vmlinuz-3.10.0-1160.88.1.el7.x86_64 or any one of the others, except for vmlinuz-3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64 hence a manual selection from the grub menu when in front of the machi

Re: [CentOS] Kernel updates do not boot - always boots oldest kernel

2023-03-14 Thread Petko Alov
Change it to GRUB_DEFAULT=0 (I encountered the same issue week ago with a workstation booted for three month with an older kernel because of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2143438 , and solved it this way) Regards, Petko On 3/14/23 10:51, Rob Kampen wrote: Can I edit /etc/de

[CentOS] Kernel updates do not boot - always boots oldest kernel

2023-03-14 Thread Rob Kampen
This issue has been around for some months, but other things keep crowding out a fix. uname give me 3.10.0-1160.36.2.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jul 21 11:57:15 UTC 2021 yet I have 3.10.0-1160.76.1.el7.x86_64 3.10.0-1160.81.1.el7.x86_64 3.10.0-1160.83.1.el7.x86_64 3.10.0-1160.88.1.el7.x86_64 loade

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Updates

2017-09-11 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 09/11/2017 04:34 PM, Michael Rapuano wrote: > We are running kernel-3.10.0-514.26.2.el7 and need to update to > kernel-3.10.0-693.el7. > The new kernel is in the CR repo but not in the base/update repos. When > will the updates in the CR repo be in the base/update repos? This is a high > priorit

Re: [CentOS] Kernel Updates

2017-09-11 Thread wwp
Hello Michael, On Mon, 11 Sep 2017 17:34:01 -0400 Michael Rapuano wrote: > We are running kernel-3.10.0-514.26.2.el7 and need to update to > kernel-3.10.0-693.el7. > The new kernel is in the CR repo but not in the base/update repos. When > will the updates in the CR repo be in the base/update

[CentOS] Kernel Updates

2017-09-11 Thread Michael Rapuano
We are running kernel-3.10.0-514.26.2.el7 and need to update to kernel-3.10.0-693.el7. The new kernel is in the CR repo but not in the base/update repos. When will the updates in the CR repo be in the base/update repos? This is a high priority security issue for us. -- Michael Rapuano michael.ra

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-30 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Jan 30, 2008 4:06 AM, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > nate wrote: > > Akemi Yagi wrote: > > > >> I hope you are interested in contributing to the CentOS community by > >> sharing your driver: > >> > >> https://projects.centos.org/trac/dasha/ > > > > Looks like that site is for source

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-30 Thread Johnny Hughes
nate wrote: Akemi Yagi wrote: I hope you are interested in contributing to the CentOS community by sharing your driver: https://projects.centos.org/trac/dasha/ Looks like that site is for source drivers, these drivers come from VMWare, and I'm not sure what their license is, nor do I know ex

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread Manish Kathuria
On 1/30/08, Johnny Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > nate wrote: > > Manish Kathuria wrote: > New features are typically not backported to > > current versions of the kernel, newer drivers are often back > > ported, assuming the driver existed in the RHEL kernel. If the > > driver did not exist t

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread nate
Akemi Yagi wrote: > I hope you are interested in contributing to the CentOS community by > sharing your driver: > > https://projects.centos.org/trac/dasha/ Looks like that site is for source drivers, these drivers come from VMWare, and I'm not sure what their license is, nor do I know exactly wha

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Jan 29, 2008 12:25 PM, William Hooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 29, 2008 3:18 PM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > > > > Overall ... unless you really, Really, REALLY need a newer kernel, it is > > > best to use the one provided by the distribution

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Jan 29, 2008 1:24 PM, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > I run CentOS 4 and 5 under VMWare ESX 3.x, I hacked up the VMware tools > into two different RPMS > > - core rpm (everything but drivers) > - driver rpm > > When I want to deploy a new kernel I build a special RPM wit

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread nate
Les Mikesell wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: >> >> Overall ... unless you really, Really, REALLY need a newer kernel, it is >> best to use the one provided by the distribution. > > Is there a difference in the way kernel modules are managed between > CentOS4 and 5? I thought that under CentOS4 after

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread William Hooper
On Jan 29, 2008 3:18 PM, Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Johnny Hughes wrote: > > > > Overall ... unless you really, Really, REALLY need a newer kernel, it is > > best to use the one provided by the distribution. > > Is there a difference in the way kernel modules are managed between > Ce

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread Les Mikesell
Johnny Hughes wrote: Overall ... unless you really, Really, REALLY need a newer kernel, it is best to use the one provided by the distribution. Is there a difference in the way kernel modules are managed between CentOS4 and 5? I thought that under CentOS4 after a kernel update VMware would

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
nate wrote: Manish Kathuria wrote: How are the updated kernels released by Red Hat / Cent OS related to the latest vanilla kernels ? Are the changes, new features and drivers, etc. available in the newer kernels also ported to the updated kernels released by Red Hat in their entirety ? If your

Re: [CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread nate
Manish Kathuria wrote: > How are the updated kernels released by Red Hat / Cent OS related to > the latest vanilla kernels ? Are the changes, new features and > drivers, etc. available in the newer kernels also ported to the > updated kernels released by Red Hat in their entirety ? If your compari

[CentOS] RHEL / CentOS Kernel Updates

2008-01-29 Thread Manish Kathuria
How are the updated kernels released by Red Hat / Cent OS related to the latest vanilla kernels ? Are the changes, new features and drivers, etc. available in the newer kernels also ported to the updated kernels released by Red Hat in their entirety ? For the lifetime of a distribution like RHEL 4