grub update

[jack wallen]

On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 18:22 -0500, Jonathan Berry wrote:

> I think your problem is that you have a boot partition, but that
> partition is not getting mounted.  Notice that you are booting a
> kernel that is not there!  So GRUB can find it, as well as itself, but
> since it is not properly mounted (the /boot directory, that is) you
> cannot see either.  Also, you cannot boot your new kernels because RPM
> could not find the grub.conf when you updated your kernel.  I suggest
> removing the newer kernels, mounting your /boot partition, and then
> reinstalling the newer kernels.
> What partitions do you have?  (run "fdisk -l" as root)  What is in
> your /etc/fstab file?  I have seen someone else with this problem, I
> wonder what causes a system to not mount the /boot partition after
> install.  Perhaps fstab wasn't created properly?  Jack, how did you
> initially partition your disk? (With Disk Druid, or fdisk?)
> 
> Jonathan

thanks for the reply. i had the installer do the partitioning
automatically. i didn't configure it to have a separate boot partition
but i guess it did and i didn't catch it.

from fdisk -l i get:

Disk /dev/hde: 20.4 GB, 20485785600 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2490 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hde1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/hde2              14        2490    19896502+  8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/hdf: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 79656 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdf1   *           1         203      102280+  83  Linux
/dev/hdf2             204       77836    39127032   83  Linux
/dev/hdf3           77837       79656      917280   82  Linux swap

in my /boot directory i have:

config-2.6.10-1.770_FC3      System.map-2.6.10-1.770_FC3
config-2.6.11-1.14_FC3       System.map-2.6.11-1.14_FC3
initrd-2.6.10-1.770_FC3.img  vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.770_FC3
initrd-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.img   vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.14_FC3

i've run mount /dev/hde2 /MOUNT 

(i created MOUNT to see what was on /dev/hde1)

and it contains;

config-2.6.9-1.667  initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img  System.map-2.6.9-1.667
grub                lost+found              vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667

so i'm assuming i need to mount this before i upgrade the kernels.
however, if i mount this into /boot won't it overwrite the current
contents of /boot?

thanks again for your help.


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