Archive for December, 2010

Kernel updates on Rocks Cluster

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

Computers running rocks software that are receiving updates via yum or another method have a unique issue when it comes to kernel upgrades.  Part of the rocks system involves changing the grub.conf file at boot time depending on how the system was shut down.  If the computer is shut down properly, grub-orig.conf is copied over grub.conf.  If not, rocks.conf is used for the startup.