/dev/sda1 -> /boot failure

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Patrick Nelson wrote:
> FC4 yum updated
> 
> I have a system that has /boot as its own partition (/dev/sda1).  The
> rest of the fs is in a lvm volume group.
> 
> the /dev/sda1 is having some problems which were shown by
> 
> - boot off of rescue cd, mount FC4 instance and chroot to it, then re
> login as root
> - umount /boot
> - fsck -c /dev/sda1
> 
> and I want to move /boot back onto the "/" fs in the volume group, which
> I have done by:
> 
> - boot off of rescue cd, mount FC4 instance and chroot to it, then re
> login as root
> - removed the /boot reference in fstab
> - copied /grub dir from old /boot to the new dir
> - because the kernel files were corrupted I added the kernels (I usually
> keep 2 -> current and 1 version back) back with:
> --  rpm -ivh --force --noscript kernel-2.6.17-1.2139-FC4.i686.rpm
> --  rpm -ivh --force --noscript kernel-2.6.17-1.2141-FC4.i686.rpm
> 
> This appears to have put the files back into the new /boot location.  So
> my question is what is the next step to tell the system that it needs to
> use the new /boot directory?
> 
> Or any other comments?
> 
Does Grub know how to handle LVM volume groups? I thought part of
the reason for having a separate /boot partition was for Grub
access, but I could be wrong. In any case, you will have to
re-install Grub to the MBR. Depending on the changes you have made,
you may have to update the device map as well.

Mikkel
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