Comment # 1 on bug 990701 from Michael Andres

(In reply to andreas bittner from comment #0)
> How exactly does zypper replace the currently selected and in use kernel for
> grub2 config?
>
> How can I manually select which kernel package to use for grub2 when there
> are multiple installed as in this case? what config setting and where and
> how influences what stuff becomes added or replaced in the grub2 config?

Zypper does not treat the kernel packages special.

The kernel packages pre/post install scripts must take care about all this. 
The kernel scripts usually use perl-Bootloader to adjust the boot menu. 

I'll assign the bug to the perl-Bootloader maintainer to figure out why the
newly installed kernel was not added to the boot menu.


@Andreas: Please attach your /var/log/zypp/history file, 
so we can see exactly which kernel was installed and whether the install
scripts wrote out some messages.