Hi Miles,
It sounds like, for some reason, grub is actually pointing to a
different grub.conf file. I get this reaction when I have more than 1
distribution installed on my machine, and I edit the grub.conf by hand
to point to a different distribution.
Two ways to fix it.
1 - find where the real grub.conf is.
There are several ways to do that. Since I don't know your machine, I'd
say let grub figure it out. When you boot, and the grub screen comes
up, type 'c' (for command line prompt) then do a 'find
/boot/grub/grub.conf' and see how many there are.
2 - rerun grub-install
Since you want this grub.conf anyway, might as well just re-install it.
Just do a 'grub-install /dev/hda' and it should work the right way.
Troy
Miles O'Neal wrote:
> I installed the ELSDR kernel from contrib.
> It updates /etc/grub.conf fine, but makes
> the default 1 (the old kernel). So I change
> the default to 0 and reboot, and get... the
> old kernel.
>
> There are only two kernels listed. Both
> were installed by rpm (one at kickstart
> time). Regardless of whether I set default
> to 0 or 1, grub defaults to the second
> (original, non-SDR) kernel.
>
> I can manually select the SDR kernel when
> the grub screen appears, but that's not really
> a good option.
>
> Here's an /etc/grub.conf from one of the
> boxes:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
> # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
> # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
> # root (hd0,0)
> # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2
> # initrd /initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Scientific Linux SL Release 3.0.4 (SL) (2.4.21-27.0.2.ELSDR)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.2.ELSDR ro root=LABEL=/
> initrd /initrd-2.4.21-27.0.2.ELSDR.img
> title Scientific Linux (2.4.21-27.0.2.EL)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL ro root=LABEL=/
> initrd /initrd-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL.img
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Miles
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