RH202 Question #57: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation

1. rpm -ivh ftp://server1.example.com/pub/updates/kernel-2.6.19-11.i686.rpm 2. vi /etc/grub.conf default=1 Change this value to 1 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.6.19-11) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.19-11.EL ro

Question

One New Kernel is released named kernel-2.6.19-11. Kernel is available on ftp://server1.example.com/pub/updates directory for anonymous. Install the Kernel and make the kernel-2.6.18-8 default.

Explanation

rpm -ivh ftp://server1.example.com/pub/updates/kernel-2.6.19-11.i686.rpm
vi /etc/grub.conf default=1 Change this value to 1 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.6.19-11) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.19-11.EL ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.19-11.EL.img title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.6.9-5.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.EL ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-5.EL.img According question that kernel is available to anonymous user. You can directly install from the ftp server using rpm command. When you install the kernel, it will write on /etc/grub.conf file. You can set the default kernel by changing the default value. See on the output of /etc/grub.conf file that new kernel is on first title so it's index is 0 and previous kernel's index is 1.

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