yum update 2179 kernel

[Nigel Wade]

John Fleming wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "ne..." <akabi at speakeasy.net>
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 7:23 AM
> Subject: Re: yum update 2179 kernel
> 
> 
> 
>>On Apr 20, 2004 at 06:24, John Fleming in a soothing rage wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>Do you have a separate boot partition?  Maybe it's not getting mounted.
>>>
>>>If
>>>
>>>>grub was initially installed to this partition it would still be used
> 
> for
> 
>>>>booting, and for storing the original kernels but you wouldn't see
> 
> those
> 
>>>>kernels when the system was running.
>>>>
>>>>Check the partition table and contents of /etc/fstab.
>>>
>>>Here's my fstab file:
>>>
>>>[root at wa9als etc]# cat fstab|more
>>>LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1
> 
> 1
> 
>>>LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1
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> 2
> 
>>>none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0
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> 0
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>>>none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0
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> 0
> 
>>>none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0
> 
> 0
> 
>>>/dev/hda3               swap                    swap    defaults        0
> 
> 0
> 
>>>/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto
> 
> noauto,owner,kudzu 0
> 
>>>0
>>>/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660
>>>noauto,owner,kudzu,r
>>>o 0 0
>>
>>So what is the output of mount or df? This will tell
>>us whether your /boot partition is mounted.
> 
> 
> [root at wa9als root]# df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2             37318128   2596064  32826396   8% /
> 
> [root at wa9als root]# mount
> /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
> [root at wa9als root]#
> 
> 
> 

Well, for some reason your /boot partition isn't mounted.
Is there any error in /var/log/messages which might indicate why?

Try mounting it and see if it is ok.

There may be some confusion in the system as to which kernel is actually 
installed since the updated kernel was installed when /boot was not mounted. 
What does rpm say if you 'rpm -q kernel'? Also, do you have the modules for 
both kernels, what's in /lib/modules?

You will likely have to move the contents of /boot elsewhere, when /boot is 
not mounted. Them mount /boot and move the contents back to get the new 
kernel in it's proper place.

-- 
Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
             University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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