how to remove and reinstall kernel 2.6.27?

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Sun Nov 16 06:50:39 UTC 2008


On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:07 AM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> this is still about the box mentioned in my recent threads "is this
> grub.conf correct" and "can't login as root"
>
> The previous attempts to update/fix the system from rescue mode have left
> me (don't ask why, please) with
> only parts of the last kernel installed, or so it seems
>
> What I mean is that if I run rpm -q kernel I get two lines, one for
> 2.6.25-14 and one for 2.6.27.5-37
>
> But if I look into /boot/ I see vmlinuz, initrd, systen.map and config
> files only of 2.6.25
>
> There is no initrd for 2.6.27 (the other files are there). So it looks
> like the rpm install of 2.6.27 was corrupted for some reason. How do I
> manage to make yum understand that that version isn't properly installed
> and it should update the kernel to 2.6.27?
>
> TIA,
> Marco
>
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yum reinstall kernel-2.6.27

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