yum update 2179 kernel

[Nigel Wade]

John Fleming wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Eric Diamond" <eric at ediamond.net>
> To: "'For users of Fedora Core releases'" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 4:41 PM
> Subject: RE: yum update 2179 kernel
> 
> 
> 
>>Monday, April 19, 2004 3:16 PM John Fleming added:
>>
>>
>>>Monday, April 19, 2004 3:10 PM Brian Chase helped with:
>>>
>>>>... If you've got a day or two to see more posts
>>>>on this for better advice, you would be wise to get them all before
>>>>making any moves.
>>>
>>>Thanks Brian.  I can wait.  I did run yum update again, but
>>>it just said all packages were up to date (as does up2date!).
>>>
>>
>>Sage advice under any circumstances...
>>
>>OK. Two questions:
>>
>>1) You say that yum/rpm/kernel packare is stating that there's no boot
>>loader configured, but yet you get the grub splash screen and kernel
>>choices... What does 'rpm -q grub' output?
> 
> 
> grub-0.93-7
> 
> 
>>AND
>>
>>2) What happens if you run 'rpm -e kernel-2.4.22-1.2179.nptl' and then
>>run 'yum update'?
> 
> 
> 1. Well, I ran "yum remove kernel-2.4.22-1.2179.nptl"
> 
> and got "No Matches for (the above).
> 
> 2. Then I ran 'rpm -e .....' as above and it returned the console prompt.
> 
> 3.  Then I ran yum update - (I'm just used to using yum).  It didn't
> download anything, but said it was installing the kernel.  Then the
> aforementioned "no bootloader found" message, then a line that the kernel
> was installed.
> 
> 4.  Rebooted - Got the Grub 0.93 screen with the 2 old kernel choices.
> 
> 5.  Updated, this time with rpm graphical, and it downloaded the kernel -
> Downloaded and installed without errors, and suggested I reboot to use the
> new kernel.
> 
> 6.  The reboot yielded the graphical screen showing Grub 0.93 and STILL THE
> 2 OLD KERNEL CHOICES!
> 
> 7.  Still no /boot/grub file, fwiw.
> 
> Any help appreciated.  - John
> 
> 

Do you have a separate boot partition?  Maybe it's not getting mounted.  If 
grub was initially installed to this partition it would still be used for 
booting, and for storing the original kernels but you wouldn't see those 
kernels when the system was running.

Check the partition table and contents of /etc/fstab.


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