FC3T2 Kernel Startup

[John Hawkins]

I wasn't certain whether /boot/grub was supposed to exist as I read in
my RH8 documentation because the only thing in my boot directory are
four files:
config-2.6.8-1.603
initrd-2.6.8-1.603.img
system.map-2.6.8-1.603
vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.603

No subdirectories under boot. I thought that since I am using LVM
something might be different from my original documentation.

How do I get boot/grub installed? Is it located on any of the
installation disks? Any advice is welcomed.

Thanks.

> You need to update your grub configuration (perhaps it didn't updated
> automatically). Go to /boot/grub and edit menu.lst. Change 2.6.7-1.478 to
> 2.6.8-1.520 everywhere you see this numbers (kernel..., initrd...). Do it
> with root permissions, save and reboot.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Hawkins" <jhawkins at tampabay.rr.com>
> To: <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 9:02 PM
> Subject: FC3T2 Kernel Startup
> 
> 
> > I have FC3T2 installed on a PIII 450 mhz system. The initial
> > installation installed kernel 2.6.7-1.478 and I upgraded the kernel with
> > up2date to kernel 2.6.8-1.520 last night. The boot process is not how
> > expect it to behave and the new kernel is not being loaded. I've
> > rebooted a number of times and have tried to write everything down on
> > paper so that I could document this issue. I haven't caught everything,
> > so if I am missing something that you think is important, let me know
> > and I'll keep booting until I get it all. Here's what I see.
> >
> >
> > A quick flash that looks like Grub Stage 2 (not certain as it really
> > flashes too quick to read it well).
> >
> > Root (hd0,0)
> > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> > kernel /vmlinux - 2.6.7-1.478 ro root= /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb
> > quiet
> > [Linux -bz Image, setup=0x1400, size=0x148891]
> > initrd /initrd-2.6.7-1.478.img
> > [Linux-initrd @ 0x17f3a000,0xa5eba bytes]
> >
> > Uncompressing Linux..... OK, booting the kernel
> > audit (1097336390.4294966319:0) initialized
> > Red Hat Nash version 3.5.24 starting
> > reading all physical volumes. This may take a while.....
> > Found Volume group "VolGroup00" using media at the lvm2 (it think this
> > is what this line says - I can't read my scribling well)
> > I then get a full screen of what appears to be some type of hex dump
> > like:
> >
> > 88 36 03 05 00 40 ed (and so on for at least 40 lines)
> >
> > After a few seconds the screen clears and the following is displayed:
> >
> > Fedora Core Release 2.90 (FC3 Test1)
> > Linux 2.6.7-1.478 on an i686
> >
> > localhost login:
> >
> > after a couple of seconds the screen clears and I get the Fedora Core
> > Graphical login screen.
> >
> >
> > Any ideas why the updated version of the kernel is not loading?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
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