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+ <B>imnotpc</B>
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+ <I>Sat Apr 7 18:16:33 CEST 2012</I>
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+<PRE>On 04/07/2012 09:35 AM, Frank Griffin wrote:
+&gt;<i> On 04/07/2012 08:51 AM, imnotpc wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I just discovered that when a new kernel package is installed the
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> grub menu entry is added to the bottom rather than the top. The
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> result is that the original kernel remains the default and new
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> kernels not used. Most of my systems are only accessed through ssh so
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I had no idea the new kernels weren't being used and this only came
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> to my attention today when another update, probably dbus, broke the
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> old kernel and hung all my boxes during reboot.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I would think that if you install an update the expectation is that
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> it would be used by default. I haven't had time to check yet, but
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> this may also be the cause of other bugs I've been having. Is this a
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> bug or intended behavior?
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Not so. The default uses the symlinks for vmlinuz and initrd which
+</I>&gt;<i> are version-independent, and the kernel install redefines them to
+</I>&gt;<i> point to the new kernel. The entry tacked on to the end uses the new
+</I>&gt;<i> versoins by name, and is there so that after the next new kernel comes
+</I>&gt;<i> along you'll have an entry to boot this one if you need to.
+</I>
+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.
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