Upgraded to Gutsy but wrong kernel is being booted

[Karl Bowden]

On Jan 28, 2008 8:18 PM, David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did the upgrade to Gutsy from the Update Manager on the weekend and
> whilst everything seems to be running just fine, I do notice that when
> the default boot kernel is still the old 2.6.20 one from Feisty.  The
> new 2.6.22 kernel is installed however.
>
> djwhyte at myth:~$ uname -a
> Linux myth 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
> djwhyte at myth:~$
>
> I don't recall ever modifying the /boot/grub/menu.lst file to specify
> a particular boot image, however, I may have done.  I would have
> thought that I would have gotten a notification about that though when
> the new kernel was installed.
>
> Attached is the menu.lst file.  It seems to have a 'default' entry,
> should I just set that to zero, or will that prevent any future
> updates from becoming the default?
>
> Cheers,
> Whytey
>

Just change the default line to:
default     0
and reboot.

Not sure of why or if your default changed / did not change, by that
should get you booting 2.6.22

- Karl

ps. sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
But you seem to have plenty enough clue to attach the menu.lst file in
the first place.