David ("David" ) gurgled happily, sounding much
like they were saying:

> Running Hardy beta (with latest updates). On boot up I am offered the
> choice of various kernels. 2.6.24-16 or -15 or -12 plus a lot of other
> stuff. Start-up Manager clearly is set so that -16 is the default OS but
> unless I manually override it the -15 version is always loaded on start
> up. Any ideas guys?

Going by how the Hardy updates have been playing on my test box, when the
update manager ran, it would have completed the installs then asked you
if you wanted to remove certain redundant packages - including the old
kernels - did you tell it not to?

David wrote:
> Running Hardy beta (with latest updates).
> On boot up I am offered the choice of various kernels.
> 2.6.24-16 or -15 or -12 plus a lot of other stuff.
> Start-up Manager clearly is set so that -16 is the default OS but unless I
> manually override it the -15 version is always loaded on start up.
> Any ideas guys?

I don't use Start-up Manager, so do it the old-school way. Fire up
Terminal and change it in /boot/grub/menu.lst

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Gr...hangeDefaultOS

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glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours;
and this we should do freely and generously.
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Adrian wrote:
> Going by how the Hardy updates have been playing on my test box, when the
> update manager ran, it would have completed the installs then asked you
> if you wanted to remove certain redundant packages - including the old
> kernels - did you tell it not to?

What, really? Update Manager does that? You sure. I can't see it doing
that. If your new kernel doesn't work properly, then what?

--
As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be
glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours;
and this we should do freely and generously.
--Benjamin Franklin

"Adrian" wrote in message
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> David ("David" ) gurgled happily, sounding much
> like they were saying:
>
>> Running Hardy beta (with latest updates). On boot up I am offered the
>> choice of various kernels. 2.6.24-16 or -15 or -12 plus a lot of other
>> stuff. Start-up Manager clearly is set so that -16 is the default OS but
>> unless I manually override it the -15 version is always loaded on start
>> up. Any ideas guys?
>
> Going by how the Hardy updates have been playing on my test box, when the
> update manager ran, it would have completed the installs then asked you
> if you wanted to remove certain redundant packages - including the old
> kernels - did you tell it not to?

No...I didn't see any dialog and didn't tell it to boot to any specific
kernel.

"johnny bobby bee" wrote in message
news:yaENj.507$og.96@edtnps91...
> David wrote:
>> Running Hardy beta (with latest updates).
>> On boot up I am offered the choice of various kernels.
>> 2.6.24-16 or -15 or -12 plus a lot of other stuff.
>> Start-up Manager clearly is set so that -16 is the default OS but unless
>> I manually override it the -15 version is always loaded on start up.
>> Any ideas guys?
>
> I don't use Start-up Manager, so do it the old-school way. Fire up
> Terminal and change it in /boot/grub/menu.lst
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Gr...hangeDefaultOS
>

Hi,
Thanks jbb. This was the input I was looking for.
As often happens this "problem" has been with me for several days but just
as I tried to change the script in /boot/grub/menu.lst I found that the
problem had gone away. It boots into -16 now as default.
This happened after I installed the latest updates. That's beta for you!
Cheers
Dave