Kernel update broke my system.

[Todd Denniston]

Smith, Herb wrote, On 05/29/2009 02:27 PM:
> Can't boot into anything when all you get is the GRUB_ prompt.  Wrote to
> the help me list to figure out what to do to get my system back.  Once I
> get it back I'll be able to try a lot of different things.  From the
> respones of some, it seems that it's an issue with GRUB, but it's
> unclear that there is an underlying kernel issue or not.  It would seem
> that the kernel might be ok, but just that GRUB got hosed in the update
> process. 
> 

Which is why I am still curious ...
On an installed system, WHY do we need to reinstall _grub_ when there is a 
kernel UPDATE?????
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2008-October/msg01189.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432555
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472829
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=450143

Yes there may be/probably is a problem with grub or the grub reinstall 
process, but to what purpose (besides to keep this set of bugs open) is grub 
being reinstalled for a kernel update.
What is the problem that reinstalling grub with kernel updates is solving?
Granted I am assuming that it is something other than the kernel maintainer is 
just too lazy to remove the grub reinstall calls from either the kernel spec 
file or /sbin/new-kernel-pkg.


> Yes, I do realize that the previous kernel is still there, but was also
> curious as to what could cause this.  It appears, from the lack of
> traffic on the topic that not many have had this issue.  Wondered if it
> was a hiccup in the download process that caused an install to go bad,
> or if there was something unique to my system that caused it to go
> bad...  
> 
> Sorry for trying to understand...
> 
> Herb Smith
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David [mailto:dgboles at comcast.net] 
>> Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 12:49 PM
>> To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora.
>> Subject: Re: Kernel update broke my system.
>>
>> On 5/29/2009 1:16 PM, David Burns wrote:
>>> Is there a way to test whether my system has this problem 
>> without rebooting?
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>> the Updater is doing that job, and it nuked my system too.
>>
>> You do realize that the kernel that was running when you did 
>> the update is still installed? This one that "broke my 
>> system.". This one that "nuked my system too.". And that you 
>> can boot into it instead of this new one?
>>
>> Why don't you do that and report this kernel problem to 
>> bugzilla? That would surely get the attention of the kernel 
>> maintainers more effectively than post to a general 'help me' list.
>>
>> -- 


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Todd Denniston
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