[mail] Re: Kernel issues

[Michael Schwendt]

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:41:14 +0100, M. wrote:

> Oh boy, this is gonna be a tough one. :-) I had a look on my box as the root
> and in my /boot directory there are no further subdirectories, or any files
> named grub or grub.conf for that matter. I did install grub to the MBR, that
> I remember now. I don't know where my grub.conf file has gone; 

Without the file, GRUB would refuse to boot. So, search differently.
In GRUB menu, enter the GRUB command-line mode and use "find
/boot/grub/grub.conf" and "find /grub/grub.conf". What do you get?

> the file
> finder simply doesn't find it. I did a bit of searching on the web regarding
> this issue and one site mentioned an "update-grub" command which is to
> recreate the grub config file. It's a real shame though Fedora doesn't have
> that particular file. :-)
>  
> So the bottom line here is, I have a system that boots, it has kernel 681 on
> it (somewhere!), but I don't have the config file for grub. Perhaps there is
> a grub command that recreates this the config file? (Do I first need to
> create a folder called "grub" in "/boot"?). Since I did some reading on grub
> reconfigs, etc. I would also very much like to create a bootable diskette
> first -- any help on this would also be greatly appreciated. :-)
>  
> And, oh BTW, this box is Linux only.

After booting, what do you get for "rpm --query grub"?

Are you sure you installed GRUB and not LILO?