Latest rawhide may destroy /boot

[Eric Sandeen]

On 11/25/12 1:46 PM, darrell pfeifer wrote:
> Last night on my rawhide laptop I installed
> 
> kernel 3.7.0-0.rc6.git4.1.fc19.
> 
> Upon reboot I got a grub shell prompt. Turns out my /boot was empty.

Are you sure it was properly mounted, and you weren't just looking at the empty mountpoint?

-Eric

> I've been installing and using pretty much every recent kernel, including the nodebug ones. I notice that I also installed a newer version of dracut a couple of days ago. I'm pretty sure I've installed and run several kernels since the newer dracut, so I'm not sure it is the problem.
> 
> For the record, my workaround was
> 
> Boot an F17 resuce disk
> chroot /mnt/sysimage
> Insert a slightly old F18 disk (that didn't have rescue mode)
> rpm --oldpackage of the kernel and dracut off the F18 disk
> reboot
> 
> darrell
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