Dapper to be delayed 6 weeks...

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:50:02 -0400
Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:

> given that Grub's configured to reboot with the last used kernel,
> >> odds are that I'll end up back in the same kernel after reboot, too!
> > 
> > I don't think so - here kernel updates result in the new kernel booting by
> > default. As far as I know Grub does this "automagically".
> 
> That's user configurable - and what you're describing was certainly the
> default when I first installed Ubuntu.  However, grub does not do that to
> _me_ automagically, and if it was ever modified to do so, I'd be howling so
> you could here me from wherever in the world you are!  I almost never shut
> down my laptop: I hibernate it.  If I did a kernel install, and it rebooted
> in the new kernel after hibernation, things could get messy.

Aha! Point taken. 

I don't hibernate my machines - but it has happened a
few times that a new kernel has caused problems for me, and needed some
fiddling about. Of course, since I have three bootable partitions on my
main desktop machine,  Grub offers me a menu on boot each time, so it
doesn't boot immediately, and I have a choice.

-- 
Peter Garrett