On Thursday, November 27, 2014 12:20:20 AM Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Should this not be > > yum localinstall *rpm > > or is yum install good enough? yum install is good enough. localinstall Is used to install a set of local rpm files. If required the enabled repositories will be used to resolve dependencies. Note that the install command will do a local install, if given a filename. This command is maintained for legacy reasons only.

I am using CentOS 6 and grub 0.97 1. Launched a Virtual Machine (VM) with CentOS 6. (This step is done.) 2. After the VM comes up, copy latest kernel and initrd from remote server to /boot through a script present at /etc/init.d/ (This step is done) 3. How to edit grub config file either by command or by script (but not manually), to update the new kernel and initrd so that next time it boots up with the new kernel ?

On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 1:40 PM, santosh <santosh.iitg(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > I am using CentOS 6 and grub 0.97 > > 1. Launched a Virtual Machine (VM) with CentOS 6. (This step is done.) > > 2. After the VM comes up, copy latest kernel and initrd from remote > server to /boot > through a script present at /etc/init.d/ (This step is done) > > 3. How to edit grub config file either by command or by script (but > not manually), to update > the new kernel and initrd so that next time it boots up with the > new kernel ? Put the kernel and kernel-modules rpms in a directory, cd to that directory, then # yum install *rpm The post-install scripts will call grubby which will insert the proper GRUB menu entry. FWIW, there is no GRUB legacy equivalent for GRUB2's grub-mkconfig command so there isn't a way to generate a new one from scratch.