johan.vermeulen7 at telenet.be
2016-Sep-22 15:14 UTC
[CentOS] always boot from Elrepo kernel
Hello All, I purchased some Dell Latitude 3570 laptops. They came with Ubuntu preinstalled. ( Which I swapped for Centos7) I have to use Elrepo kernel on these machines to get some of the fn function keys to work. So I installed Elrepo's kernel-ml and selected this kernel with: # grub2-set-default 0 ( after disabling secure boot) The problem I see is that after a next kernel update, the new Centos kernel will be nr 0 and the machine will boot from that kernel if I tested this correctly. Is there a way I can enable elrepo kernel update but not the regular Centos kernel? Many thanks, J.
On 09/22/2016 10:14 AM, johan.vermeulen7 at telenet.be wrote:> Hello All, > > I purchased some Dell Latitude 3570 laptops. They came with Ubuntu preinstalled. ( Which I swapped for Centos7) > I have to use Elrepo kernel on these machines to get some of the fn function keys to work. > So I installed Elrepo's kernel-ml and selected this kernel with: > # grub2-set-default 0 > ( after disabling secure boot) > > The problem I see is that after a next kernel update, the new Centos kernel will be nr 0 and the machine will > boot from that kernel if I tested this correctly. > > Is there a way I can enable elrepo kernel update but not the regular Centos kernel?I believe you need to update /etc/sysconfig/kernel to set the 'default' kernel package to be the kernel-ml or whichever elrepo kernel you're using. -- Jim Perrin The CentOS Project | centos.org twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77
johan.vermeulen7 at telenet.be
2016-Sep-26 09:29 UTC
[CentOS] always boot from Elrepo kernel
----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- Van: "Jim Perrin" <jperrin at centos.org> Aan: centos at centos.org Verzonden: Donderdag 22 september 2016 17:19:42 Onderwerp: Re: [CentOS] always boot from Elrepo kernel On 09/22/2016 10:14 AM, johan.vermeulen7 at telenet.be wrote:> Hello All, > > I purchased some Dell Latitude 3570 laptops. They came with Ubuntu preinstalled. ( Which I swapped for Centos7) > I have to use Elrepo kernel on these machines to get some of the fn function keys to work. > So I installed Elrepo's kernel-ml and selected this kernel with: > # grub2-set-default 0 > ( after disabling secure boot) > > The problem I see is that after a next kernel update, the new Centos kernel will be nr 0 and the machine will > boot from that kernel if I tested this correctly. > > Is there a way I can enable elrepo kernel update but not the regular Centos kernel?I believe you need to update /etc/sysconfig/kernel to set the 'default' kernel package to be the kernel-ml or whichever elrepo kernel you're using. Hello Jim, thanks for the reply. For some reason that doesnt' work. To test this I booted from an older kernel and removed the most recent Centos-kernel After installing Elrepo's kernel-ml the system boots from kernel-ml, with or without changing /etc/sysconfig/kernel to DEFAULTKERNEL=kernel-ml But after running an update again, and reinstalling the latest Centos kernel, the system boots from that kernel again. Greetings, J. -- Jim Perrin The CentOS Project | centos.org twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos