Kernel updates not "taking"
Claude Jones
cjones at patriot.net
Fri Jan 27 22:20:42 UTC 2006
On Friday 27 January 2006 3:06 pm, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> Claude Jones wrote:
> > I brought this up yesterday, perhaps in the wrong thread. I have the 1826
> > and 1878 kernels. Yesterday, I had the 1872 and 1826. When the 1872 was
> > installed, it never was offered as an option at startup. If I'd tap the
> > keyboard to get the list, 1872 was not there. After boot-up, I see the
> > kernel in /boot and it is listed in menu.lst and grub.conf. Samething
> > again this am - my machine is updated to 1878. I see messages about 1872
> > being removed. 1878 is now in /boot and is listed in menu.lst and
> > grub.conf. BUT, on startup, it is not in the list - only 1826 is
> > offered...
> >
> > Anyone know what's up?
>
> Interesting thread. Long shot....but, does ls /boot show a directory
> link of boot back to itself?
ls /boot
config-2.6.15-1.1826.2.10_FC5 lost+found
config-2.6.15-1.1878_FC5 System.map-2.6.15-1.1826.2.10_FC5
grub System.map-2.6.15-1.1878_FC5
initrd-2.6.15-1.1826.2.10_FC5.img vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.1826.2.10_FC5
initrd-2.6.15-1.1878_FC5.img vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.1878_FC5
> It should.
Looks like no
> Or do you have a "real"
> /boot/boot directory, with grub pointing to one and yum updating in the
> other? Could you post fdisk -l /dev/hda (or wherever your boot
> partition is),
fdisk -l /dev/hdb
Disk /dev/hdb: 300.0 GB, 300069052416 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36481 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 14 36481 292929210 8e Linux LVM
> ls -l /boot and your grub.conf file.
>
ls -l /boot
total 7899
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 62210 Jan 11 18:24 config-2.6.15-1.1826.2.10_FC5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 63194 Jan 26 23:33 config-2.6.15-1.1878_FC5
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jan 27 12:02 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1598719 Jan 20 18:09 initrd-2.6.15-1.1826.2.10_FC5.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1587841 Jan 27 09:32 initrd-2.6.15-1.1878_FC5.img
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Jan 20 13:03 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 858284 Jan 11 18:24 System.map-2.6.15-1.1826.2.10_FC5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 812452 Jan 26 23:33 System.map-2.6.15-1.1878_FC5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1518017 Jan 11 18:24 vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.1826.2.10_FC5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1517931 Jan 26 23:33 vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.1878_FC5
cat grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd1,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.1878_FC5)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.1878_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00
rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.1878_FC5.img
title FC5-t2 (2.6.15-1.1826.2.10_FC5)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.1826.2.10_FC5 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup01/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.1826.2.10_FC5.img
title FC4
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1
title XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
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Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA
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