With only the GRUB prompt how can you determin the version you have? <div class="gmail_quote">2008/11/19 Manoj Kumar <<a href="mailto:manoj.u.kumar@gmail.com">manoj.u.kumar@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">>From the grub> prompt, type the following to boot the server 1. grub> root (hdx,y) where x is the hard disk containing /boot y is the partition number of /boot 2. grub> kernel /vmlinuz-<version> ro root=<device file name of root partition> type the appropriate kernel to boot & the device file name of root partition eg., grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 ro root=/dev/sda2 3. grub> /initrd-<version>.img type the appropriate initrd version 4. grub> boot Perform the above 4 steps & see if the server boots. If it boots then open /boot/grub/grub.conf and make the neccessary changes or if the file is missing create one Thanks Manoj <div class="gmail_quote">2008/11/19 Mel Wade <<a href="mailto:mel@melwade.com" target="_blank">mel@melwade.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"> <div> <div></div> <div class="Wj3C7c">I did some updates and then rebooted the server. Now all I'm getting is a grub prompt. Not sure where to go from here... -- Mel Wade "The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." - BF Skinner <a href="http://www.melwade.com/" target="_blank">http://www.melwade.com</a> </div></div>_______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com" target="_blank">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org/" target="_blank">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div> _______________________________________________ K12OSN mailing list <a href="mailto:K12OSN@redhat.com">K12OSN@redhat.com</a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn</a> For more info see <<a href="http://www.k12os.org/" target="_blank">http://www.k12os.org</a>> </blockquote></div> -- Mel Wade "The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." - BF Skinner <a href="http://www.melwade.com">http://www.melwade.com</a>