Grubby error

[Timothy Murphy]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>> It doesn't really matter to me,
>> but when I did "yum update" just now
>> I got the following warning message when installing a new kernel:
>> "grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template".
>> 
>> What puzzles me about this is that there appears to be
>> a perfectly good entry in /etc/grub.conf re this kernel,
>> so I don't understand how grub could have made a fatal error.
>> 
>> Also, I don't understand why it complains that it could not find
>> a suitable template, since again it seems to have done
>> exactly what it is meant to do.
>> 
>> Here is the entry in /etc/grub.conf :
>> ===========================================
>> title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.724_FC3)
>>         root (hd0,1)
>>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.724_FC3 ro root=/dev/sda5
>>         initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.724_FC3.img
>> ============================================
> 
> Was there another, similar entry, still present for the kernel you were
> running when you did the "yum update"?

I'm not sure what you mean.
I'm actually running linux-2.6.10 (which I compiled),
and there is an entry for that in /etc/grub:
============================================
title Fedora Core (2.6.10)
        root (hd0,1)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10 ro root=/dev/sda5
        initrd /initrd-2.6.10.img
============================================

As I said, I don't understand what the "fatal error" is,
or what "template" grub was looking for.


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