VMware server cannot run on FC6

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 26 10:55:35 UTC 2006


On 10/26/06, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> >> (don't worry about the grubby warning)  then added back in the i686
> >> stuff we just downloaded
> >>
> >> rpm -i kernel*.rpm
> >>
> >> On reboot, the previously compiled module "just worked" without a
> >> recompile, now it had an i686 arch kernel to get into.
> >
> > Did that, but now the /boot directory is empty and FC6 does not boot.
> > Any ideas?
>
> You did rpm -i the i686 kernel packages in, right?  Is /boot mounted?
> Because you should at least see a grub subdir in there (I assume you are
> looking having booted "linux rescue" off the install media)

Yes, I did install i686 kernels, and I am looking to the /boot
directory from a FC4 partition that I have on the same computer. I
have mounted the FC6 partition with the command:

mount -t ext3 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /mnt/fc6

Any ideas?

Paul




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