OT: General grub question

[Michael Yep]

 > I built a new kernel for one of our SuSe servers, and I put all the files
> > in the correct places.
> > But when I went to look for a /boot/grub/grub.conf file, there was none.
> > Does anyone know how to install a new kernel into grub?


Ok

 > Is /boot mounted??

Yes

egis1a:/boot/grub # mount
/dev/mapper/system-Root on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/md0 on /boot type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/mapper/system-Home on /home type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/mapper/system-Tmp on /tmp type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/mapper/system-Usr on /usr type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/mapper/system-Var on /var type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
/dev/hdc on /media/cdrom type subfs 
(ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=cdfss,procuid,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/fd0 on /media/floppy type subfs 
(rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)

 > what about /etc/grub.conf?

there is no files in /etc  like grub

 > what are the contents of /boot?

egis1a:/boot # ll
total 8944
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root     4096 2004-07-15 21:33 .
drwxr-xr-x  20 root root     4096 2004-07-15 21:35 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root root      512 2004-06-10 18:14 backup_mbr
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        1 2004-06-10 18:08 boot -> .
-rw-r--r--   1 root root      512 2004-06-10 18:14 boot.0300
-rw-r--r--   1 root root      512 2004-06-10 18:14 boot.0900
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    54401 2004-07-01 12:26 config-2.6.5-7.95-smp
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     4096 2004-07-15 21:31 grub
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root       20 2004-07-15 21:33 initrd -> 
initrd-2.6.7-1b2.img
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1613653 2004-07-15 16:57 initrd-2.6.5-7.95-smp
-rw-r--r--   1 myep users  217190 2004-07-15 18:43 initrd-2.6.7-1b2.img
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root       21 2004-07-15 16:57 initrd.orig -> 
initrd-2.6.5-7.95-smp
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root       20 2004-07-09 17:21 initrd.suse -> 
/boot/initrd.shipped
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   122412 2004-07-01 12:26 Kerntypes-2.6.5-7.95-smp
drwx------   2 root root    16384 2004-06-10 18:05 lost+found
-rw-------   1 root root   164352 2004-07-15 16:57 map
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    83456 2004-07-09 17:21 message
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    78671 2004-07-01 12:26 
symvers-2.6.5-7.95-i386-smp.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 root root   758392 2004-07-01 12:19 System.map-2.6.5-7.95-smp
-rw-r--r--   1 myep users  825051 2004-07-15 18:44 System.map-2.6.7-1b2
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1861184 2004-07-01 12:26 vmlinux-2.6.5-7.95-smp.gz
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root       17 2004-07-15 21:33 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.7-1b2
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1584926 2004-07-01 12:19 vmlinuz-2.6.5-7.95-smp
-rw-r--r--   1 myep users 1677285 2004-07-15 18:44 vmlinuz-2.6.7-1b2
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root       22 2004-07-09 15:59 vmlinuz.orig -> 
vmlinuz-2.6.5-7.95-smp
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root       21 2004-07-09 17:21 vmlinuz.suse -> 
/boot/vmlinuz.shipped

NOTE:  I tried to change the symbolic links for vmlinuz and initrd to point 
at my new kernel but it didnt work.


egis1a:/boot/grub # ll
total 256
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 2004-07-15 21:31 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root   4096 2004-07-15 21:33 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root     45 2004-07-15 21:12 device.map
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  11520 2004-04-05 20:20 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  10544 2004-04-05 20:20 fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   9408 2004-04-05 20:20 ffs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  11584 2004-04-05 20:20 jfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   9856 2004-04-05 20:20 minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  13184 2004-04-05 20:20 reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    512 2004-04-05 20:20 stage1
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 132213 2004-04-05 20:20 stage2
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   9056 2004-04-05 20:20 vstafs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  13160 2004-04-05 20:20 xfs_stage1_5
egis1a:/boot/grub #

There is also no menu.lst, I tried putting that in there, but it didn't do 
anything









Michael Yep
Development / Technical Operations
RemoteLink, Inc.
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