[BlueOnyx:00229] Re: 4gb on Blueonyx

[Rob Taylor]

>"Ken Marcus - Precision Web Hosting, Inc." <kenmarcus at precisionweb.net> wrote:
> Doug on all my servers the smp kernel is there. SInce I use lilo then  all I 
> had to do was edit the  /etc/lilo.conf to set the SMP kernal as the default.
> Then
> lilo -v -v
> 
> I don't know what the process would be with Grub.
> 
> So the beginning of the file looks somethign like:
> 
>    UW PICO(tm) 4.10                                       File: 
> /etc/lilo.conf
> 
> prompt
> timeout=20
> default=2.6.9-78.0.8.E1
> boot=/dev/md6
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> message=/boot/message
> serial = 0,38400n8
> linear
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-78.0.8.ELsmp
>         label=2.6.9-78.0.8.E1
>         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.9-78.0.8.ELsmp.img
>         read-only
>         root=/dev/md1
>         append="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,38400n8"
>         vga=791

To do it with Grub (On a BQ server anyway) you would:

>vi /boot/grub/grub.conf

default=0
timeout=10
hiddenmenu
title CentOS (2.6.9-78.0.8.ELsmp)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-78.0.8.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/
        initrd /initrd-2.6.9-78.0.8.ELsmp.img
title CentOS (2.6.9-78.0.8.EL)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-78.0.8.EL ro root=LABEL=/
        initrd /initrd-2.6.9-78.0.8.EL.img

The 'default=' indicates which kernel to boot, the top one in the list being '0' and the second '1' and so on!

Thanks
Rob