Fedora Kernel Upgrade
I upgraded Fedora Core 5 from kernel 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 to 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5. When I reboot it still loads the older kernel. How can I change this so It loads the new kernel?
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Somewhere in your system configuration menu (might be System Settings?)there's a "Bootloader" configurator. You can use that to change the default kernel. I used Fedora Core 4 a little over half a year ago and that's how I got the job done.
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Change the configuation settings in /etc/grub.conf (assuming you are using GRUB bootloader)
change default=0 to default=1 (if the second kernel is listed after the 74 kernel) put # infront of hiddenmenu so that you can select kernel to boot at startup |
Ok, before editing can you take a look at my etc/grub.conf file posted below. I'm not seeing the default path to the new kernel.
______ Bob # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,5) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda6 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=4 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz #hiddenmenu title Fedora Core (2.6.17-1.2187_FC5smp) root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5smp ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5smp.img title Fedora Core (2.6.17-1.2187_FC5) root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5.img title Fedora Core (2.6.17-1.2174_FC5) root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5.img title Fedora Core (2.6.17-1.2157_FC5smp) root (hd0,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5smp ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5smp.img title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 |
Every line starting with "title" signifies a kernel or OS in which you can boot into.
If you want to boot into 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 kernel put default=1, the first title is 0,second 1 and so on. After booting, on terminal you can type "uname -r" to get the version of kernel |
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