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.

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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 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 to 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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