F10Alpha- Kernels deleted wrongly, left with just a dud.

[John Summerfield]

atm I cannot boot the system in question.

At some point, having had the system running for a week or two and 
applied lotsa updates, I discovered the kernel I booted was no longer 
installed. (Evil, Debian does not do that).

Quick workaround, reboot.

I discovered that, contrary to my belief about how many kernels I should 
have, there was in fact only one (this system was originally installed 
about f8alpha or beta), and I had a period where there was a succession 
of dud kernels so I configured yum to preserve lots (and then rpm 
--erased --justdb for good measure).

Having one kernel would not be a serious problem but for the fact it 
does not get past the initrd, as far as I can see. There's a message 
about creating /dev nodes (or some such) and the system proceeds no 
further. Booting with "init=/bin/bash" does not get any further.

System hardware: HP DC7700 Intel vPro E6300 CPU etc etc.

I'm not in a position to give much info on this atm as it doesn't boot.



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Cheers
John

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