Couple of things re FC4 & yum

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 11 July 2005 12:08, Paul Howarth wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>
>(please don't Cc: me on mail posted to the list; I only need to read
> it once)
>
Oops, sorry kmail strikes again.

>> On Monday 11 July 2005 11:24, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>This machine is a bit odd in that its actual boot partition isn't
>>>>even mounted by FC4.  Somehow, in rigging it for dual booting of
>>>>FC4 and emc's bdi, its now booting from (hd1,0) instead of
>>>>(hd0,0), so that when a new kernel is installed as was the case
>>>>this morning, I have to hand modify the /dev/hdb1/grub/menu.lst
>>>>and copy all the new stuffs from /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdb1, which
>>>>when its booted to FC4, can be hand mounted as /mnt/bdi-boot.
>>>>/dev/hda1 is mounted by FC4 as /boot, but thats not where it
>>>> boots from.
>>>
>>>I'd suggest adding an entry:
>>>
>>>title Fedora Core 4
>>>        rootnoverify (hd0,1)
>>>        chainloader +1
>>>
>>>to /dev/hdb1/grub/menu.lst
>>>
>>>You should then be able to pick FC4 from the OS's boot menu, and
>>>never have to fiddle with grub entries again.
>>>
>>>Paul.
>>
>> What would this do to the grub choice of boots menu?
>
>Your second OS has installed a new copy of grub in the MBR. The idea
> to to add an entry to that OS's grub config to chain-load the FC4
> grub, in much the same way that systems dual-booting Windows
> chain-load the Windows bootloader.

I've actually done a couple of grub-installs to hda, but it seems to 
be shooting blanks. :(

>> And shouldn't
>> that be (hd0,0) which is the 'other' /boot partition that FC4
>> would normally use if somehow grub hadn't been pointed at hdb?
>
>Yes, it should. You're right.

:)

>> Currently I have it set (on hdb) for a default that is the newest
>> FC4 kernel and its running.  But as of this mornings reboot after
>> a power failure, its without a kicker, and a dead rhn-applet
>> (whatever that is, explain please) from the date of the first yum
>> update after the install.  e2fsck didn't complain about an unclean
>> shutdown either, which seems odd to say the least.
>
>rhn-applet is broken in FC4.
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160873

Bugzilla again. :p(

Is that the little red hat to blinks when there are updates available?

And how do I get the kicker back?  Is there a *rc file to blow away?

>Paul.

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