Error in editor's intro on installing kernels

[cyrwyn]

Error on page 3 of April PclosMag: The default behavior of Grub after installing a new kernel is to make it the default, so when you reboot it will be into the new kernel, not your previous one. This has always been the behavior and still is, as of yesterday when I upgraded to 2.6.38.2. Sorry, Paul.

[Old-Polack]

Error on page 3 of April PclosMag: The default behavior of Grub after installing a new kernel is to make it the default, so when you reboot it will be into the new kernel, not your previous one. This has always been the behavior and still is, as of yesterday when I upgraded to 2.6.38.2. Sorry, Paul.

Actually what you describe is the current behavior, which has been this way for a while, but you are also wrong in stating that is has always been this way. Originally it was as Paul describes it. Later it was changed so that the new kernel became the default, and the previous kernel had a direct link added to grub, as a safety backup. (I liked this method the best.) Some time later, the behavior became as now seen where the new kernel became the default, as well as a direct link for it being added.

I think the present behavior is actually an accident, as one gets two links to the new kernel, and none for the previous kernel, unless it too was an added kernel. If one does a fresh install, then adds a new kernel, there will be no link to the original install kernel, unless this has been changed yet again, recently.

[cyrwyn]

Thanks for the correction, but the current behavior has been in place for quite awhile. I seen to remember the previous way some time back didn't default to the new kernel and I wish it didn't.