Kernel Upgrade Odditty

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wednesday 28 June 2006 03:08, ben wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 02:10:49 -0400
>
> Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> wrote:
> > Yes I have.  It's not a silly question.  I just remembered to do it
> > today, which is why this is coming up now.
> >
> > menu.lst has entries for both 15-23 and 15.25.  I ran update-grub and
> > rebooted and came up in 15-23 again.  Both kernel images are in /boot.
> >
> > I diffed the menu.lst files for this server and the one that boots
> > correctly into 15-25.  Both are identical.  The list of files
> > in /boot are the same too.
> >
> > What's the next step?
>
> the only other thing i can think of is that grub has been installed
> to read from another location (ie. on another partition, always have
> this problem on a dual boot setup). to ensure its reading off
> the one u want do;
>
> sudo grub-install /dev/hda
>
> assuming the drive your bios is set to boot off is hda. if this doesn't
> do it im afraid that i cant help sorry.

Well you did help.  It wasn't any of that, but it got me headed in the right 
direction.  This particular machine is very old and has an odd disk setup.  I 
am discovering that this box and software raid do not play nice together.  
Once I re-synched the two drives it booted the correct kernel.

So, it turned out to be something very machine dependent that almost certainly 
will never happen to anyone else.  The good news for me is that within a 
month this box will be retired.

Thanks again for the help,

Scott K