yum update 2179 kernel

[Jeff Vian]

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
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>>Monday, April 19, 2004 3:16 PM John Fleming added:
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>>>Monday, April 19, 2004 3:10 PM Brian Chase helped with:
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>>>>... 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.
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>>>Thanks Brian.  I can wait.  I did run yum update again, but
>>>it just said all packages were up to date (as does up2date!).
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>>Sage advice under any circumstances...
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>>OK. Two questions:
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>>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?
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>grub-0.93-7
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>>2) What happens if you run 'rpm -e kernel-2.4.22-1.2179.nptl' and then
>>run 'yum update'?
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>1. Well, I ran "yum remove kernel-2.4.22-1.2179.nptl"
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>and got "No Matches for (the above).
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>2. Then I ran 'rpm -e .....' as above and it returned the console prompt.
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>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.
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>4.  Rebooted - Got the Grub 0.93 screen with the 2 old kernel choices.
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>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.
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>6.  The reboot yielded the graphical screen showing Grub 0.93 and STILL THE
>2 OLD KERNEL CHOICES!
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>7.  Still no /boot/grub file, fwiw.
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>Any help appreciated.  - John
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I believe you said that /boot/grub does not exist?
This seems weird if grub is actually installed and you are able to boot 
with grub.


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