Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 190167
grubby activates the wrong kernel variant as default
Last modified: 2008-04-04 07:13:55 EDT
Description of problem: When updating kernel* packages, grubby activates the wrong variant as default, i.e. xen0 instead of UP on one machine (Athlon 1400) and smp instead of UP on another (Athlon 700). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mkinitrd-5.0.32-1 How reproducible: Easy Steps to Reproduce: 1. Update kernel* packages 2. check "default" in /boot/grub/grub.conf Actual results: default kernel from a different variant Expected results: default kernel from same variant
I've seen this again with the update to 2.6.16-1.2107_FC5, it defaulted to the xen0 variant even though it defaulted to the UP variant previously.
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It seems to me that grubby activates whatever is configured in /etc/sysconfig/kernel.