[Mageia-discuss] Bug or Feature?

Sat Apr 7 18:16:33 CEST 2012

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.
+