F10Alpha- Kernels deleted wrongly, left with just a dud.
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Tue Sep 16 09:13:30 UTC 2008
atm I cannot boot the system in question.
At some point, having had the system running for a week or two and
applied lotsa updates, I discovered the kernel I booted was no longer
installed. (Evil, Debian does not do that).
Quick workaround, reboot.
I discovered that, contrary to my belief about how many kernels I should
have, there was in fact only one (this system was originally installed
about f8alpha or beta), and I had a period where there was a succession
of dud kernels so I configured yum to preserve lots (and then rpm
--erased --justdb for good measure).
Having one kernel would not be a serious problem but for the fact it
does not get past the initrd, as far as I can see. There's a message
about creating /dev nodes (or some such) and the system proceeds no
further. Booting with "init=/bin/bash" does not get any further.
System hardware: HP DC7700 Intel vPro E6300 CPU etc etc.
I'm not in a position to give much info on this atm as it doesn't boot.
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Cheers
John
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