F15 Upgrade kernel won't run.

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Sun Aug 28 07:49:16 UTC 2011


On 27/08/11 17:00, linux guy wrote:
> Here is my grub.conf file.
>
> ================================================================================
> # 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 (hd0,0)
> #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda2
> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
> #
> boot=/dev/sda
> default=1
> timeout=15
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Upgrade to Fedora 15 (Lovelock)
> kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade
> ks=hd:UUID=68c84152-0834-4e6d-b680-067752edc827:/upgrade/ks.cfg
> initrd /upgrade/initrd.img
> title Fedora (2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686.PAE)
>      root (hd0,0)
>      kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686.PAE ro
> root=UUID=f543d554-9344-4cad-a7da-47de47cd2665  verbose rhgb
> SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us nouveau.modeset=0
> rdblacklist=nouveau
> selinux=0
> initrd /initramfs-2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686.PAE.img
> title Fedora (2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686)
>      root (hd0,0)
>      kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686 ro
> root=UUID=f543d554-9344-4cad-a7da-47de47cd2665  verbose rhgb
> SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 KEYTABLE=us nouveau.modeset=0
> rdblacklist=nouveau
> selinux=0
> initrd /initramfs-2.6.35.14-95.fc14.i686.img
> =======================================================================================================

This lists two UUIDs and doesn't have an entry for the F15 kernel.

Do you have two grub.conf files?  I had similar problems last November 
when preupgrade modified an inactive version on the 'wrong' disk.  It 
worked after I copied over the new lines.

John P




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