Environment Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 [ALL] Issue System installed with latest kernel version, but need to boot with old one. How to change the default boot entry for kernel in RHEL 7 ? Resolution By default, the key for the GRUB_DEFAULT directive in the /etc/default/grub file is the word saved. This instructs GRUB 2 to load the kernel specified by the saved_entry directive in the GRUB 2 environment file, located at /boot/grub2/grubenv. One can set another GRUB record to be the default, using the grub2-set-default command, which will update the GRUB 2 environment file. By default, the saved_entry value is set to the name of latest installed kernel of package type kernel. This is defined in /etc/sysconfig/kernel by the UPDATEDEFAULT and DEFAULTKERNEL directives. The file can be viewed by the root user as follows: $ cat /etc/sysconfig/kernel # UPDATEDEFAULT specifies if new-kernel-pkg should make # new kernels the default UPDATEDEFAULT=yes # DEFAULTKERNEL specifies the default kerne...