Re: default kernel

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On 08/19/14 03:28, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 15:04:53 -0400,
>  Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Mon, 18 Aug 2014 07:59:53 -0500
>> Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>>
>>> Normally whether to use the lastest or previous kernel by default is
>>> set in /etc/sysconfig/kernel.
>>
>> Well, I finally got a chance to check that file and it says:
>>
>> UPDATEDEFAULT=yes
>> DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-core
>>
>> Not sure what the kernel-core setting means, but it definitely
>> looks as if UPDATEDEFAULT=yes was ignored.
>
> If you were using a PAE kernel, it would have had kernel-PAE-core (or kernel-PAE). This matters if you have both PAE and non-PAE kernels installed. (Previously SMP kernels used to be available as well.) It says which varient should be used for the default boot.

I don't yet have an F21 system.  But on an F20 system these are set to....

UPDATEDEFAULT=yes
DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel

If there is no package type of kernel-core then I suspect all bets are off as to the behavior.

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