Kernel updates not "taking"

[Claude Jones]

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

-- 
Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA