New kernels do not work.

[Rick Stevens]

Steve wrote:
> ---- Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote: 
>> On Sun, 2008-05-25 at 10:51 -0400, Steve wrote:
>>> ...and I should have added in my note that after I edited grub.conf,
>>> rebooted and I was still stuck with just GRUB on the screen, that I
>>> re-installed grub from the DVD while in rescue mode and then rebooted
>>> again. No luck - still just GRUB. At this point I think my next move
>>> may be to do a complete re-install. <Sigh!>
>> Still sounds most likely that it's just GRUB that you have problems
>> with, not the whole system.
> 
> OK, I have some progress to report but I'm still not sure exactly what is going on. I booted my rescue DVD and ran fdisk:
> 
> #fdisk -l
> Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xd42ad42a
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1       29341   235681551    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2           29343       30387     8393962+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda3           30388       30400      104422+  72  Unknown

Windows drive with some spare space on it.

> Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xb4b94613
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux

That's probably /boot

> /dev/sdb2              14       30401   244091610   8e  Linux LVM

That's your LVM partition (obviously).

> Disk /dev/dm-0: 247.8 GB, 247833034752 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30130 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
> 
> Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

/dev/dm-X are LVM volumes.  /dev/dm-0 is most likely your / filesystem.

> Disk /dev/dm-1: 2080 MB, 2080374784 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 252 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x30307800
> 
> Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

That's probably your swap partition (if you have one...2G sounds
like a reasonable swap space).
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