To all, I have what I hope is a dumb question. This system is a intel P3
800 with 512 ram, intel MB. When it boots it shows that it is booting to
kernel 2.6.12-1.1381-FC3.this was the latest up2date had at the time.
When it boots it comes up with kernel 2.6.9-1.667. Should I change
grub.conf back to 2.6.9 because of the slower processor, or how can I
get it to boot to the newer kernel? Do I even want to? Everything now is
working fine.
Thanks in advance for your advise and help
Jesse Benton

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

Jesse Benton wrote:

> To all, I have what I hope is a dumb question. This system is a intel P3
> 800 with 512 ram, intel MB. When it boots it shows that it is booting to
> kernel 2.6.12-1.1381-FC3.this was the latest up2date had at the time.
> When it boots it comes up with kernel 2.6.9-1.667. Should I change
> grub.conf back to 2.6.9 because of the slower processor, or how can I
> get it to boot to the newer kernel? Do I even want to? Everything now is
> working fine.
> Thanks in advance for your advise and help
> Jesse Benton

As root with you choice of text editor edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file,
the default line. Remember the counting starts at zero (0).


--
"A personal computer is called a personal computer because it's yours,
Anything that runs on that computer, you should have control over."
Andrew Moss, Microsoft's senior director of technical policy, 2005

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

Lenard wrote:
> Jesse Benton wrote:
>
> 
>
>
> As root with you choice of text editor edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file,
> the default line. Remember the counting starts at zero (0).
>
>
Lenard
This is how I have changed it. It still boots to 2.6.9 kernel.Although
I don't claim to be proficate at Linux I have been using it since RH
5.0. Here is my grub.conf

# 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/VolGroup00/LogVol00
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=1
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1381_FC3)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3.img
#title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1378_FC3)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1378_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1378_FC3.img
#title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1372_FC3)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.img
#title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
title Win XP PRO
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
map (hd1) (hd0)
map (hd0) (hd1)
makeactive
chainloader +1
boot
I hope this helps

Jesse

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]

Jesse Benton wrote:

> This is how I have changed it. It still boots to 2.6.9 kernel.Although
> I don't claim to be proficate at Linux I have been using it since RH
> 5.0. Here is my grub.conf
>
>   # 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/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=1
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> #hiddenmenu
> title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1381_FC3)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1381_FC3.img
> #title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1378_FC3)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1378_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1378_FC3.img
> #title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1372_FC3)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.img
> #title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
> title Win XP PRO
> rootnoverify (hd1,0)
> map (hd1) (hd0)
> map (hd0) (hd1)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
> boot
> I hope this helps

Of course, remove the '#' from each of the titles you added this to.

If you do not want to boot to an older kernel then remove it;

rpm -qa 'kernel*'    ;provides a list of the kernels installed

rpm -e kernel-<version_number>   ;removes the unwanted kernel, example;

rpm -e kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3  ;removes kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3

This will also remove the kernel boot choice from the grub.conf file.

What you effectively have as your Linux boot choice;

> title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1381_FC3)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img


--
"A personal computer is called a personal computer because it's yours,
Anything that runs on that computer, you should have control over."
Andrew Moss, Microsoft's senior director of technical policy, 2005

[ Post a follow-up to this message ]