[Mageia-discuss] Bug or Feature?

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2012/4/7 imnotpc <imnotpc at rock3d.net>:
> 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.

Then something went wrong during installation of the new kernel. Could
you please show the output of

$ ls -l /boot

-- 
wobo