broken grub question
Scott Talbot
talbotscott at cox.net
Thu Sep 2 06:15:16 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 18:27, James Pifer wrote:
> I have modified grub.conf and made sure menu.lst points to grub. It
> still only shows me one option. I can't figure out where the heck it's
> getting it from. Here are the only grub.conf files on the system:
> # locate grub.conf
> /boot/grub/grub.conf
> /etc/grub.conf
> # ls -l /etc/grub.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Aug 30 20:20 /etc/grub.conf
> -> ../boot/grub/grub.conf
> # ls -l /boot/grub/grub.conf
> -rw------- 1 root root 550 Aug 30 20:20
> /boot/grub/grub.conf
> [root at mythtv root]#
>
> Thanks for the help,
> James
>
Okay so tmy question is, does the menu that appears when you boot look
the same as the /boot/grub/grub.conf file? if so, does your /boot/
partition have more than the 1 kernel (the vmlinuz.... files)?
You will need to add lines to your grub.conf files for any additional
kernels, since evidently your .conf file was put in the wrong place.
Just copy line for line, the title, kernel, and initrd lines, replacing
the version-release numbers from the kernel files.
On the other hand, if you also do not have the kernel that you just
installed in your /boot drawer, you will need to do the following
as root:
rpm -qa | grep kernel #find all kernels installed on system
rpm -e kernel-version-release # version-release of the missing kernel
the reason is that your kernel was incompletely installed.
If you don't fully understand this or worry that you'll mess up your
system, sen the output of
ll /boot
and
cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
and
rpm -qa |grep kernel
HTH
Scott
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