[K12OSN] lilo config? MBR hosery? boot issues...

[anthony baldwin]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 18:10, anthony baldwin wrote:
> 
>>>If everything else is correct, running
>>>grub-install
>>>as root should do it all for you.  If you try it the hard way
>>>you have to figure out the bsd-style partition name conventions.
>>>
>>
>>I did /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda
>>and I got an "install finished" message, which seemed to indicate that 
>>all was well, but a subsequent reboot produced simliar results as 
>>perviously, only, instead of a screen with only "LI" in the corner, it 
>>have "L  80  80  80  80  80  80  80"
>>adding another 80 every 20 seconds or so.  I grew tired of the 
>>proliferating 80s and flopped in the floppy and rebooted.
>>Is this really bad news?  Does it mean my MBR is all hosed or something?
> 
> 
> Whichever of grub or lilo you installed last will overwrite the
> MBR, but it sounds like something is missing.  Does 'df' show any
> space remaining on your /boot partition?  If it is full, you
> may have installed too many kernels without removing any.
> rpm -qa |grep kernel

I got this output:

bash-2.05b$ rpm -qa |grep kernel
kernel-utils-2.4-9.1.101.fedora
ltsp_kernel_i386-3.0-13.k12ltsp.0.4.0
kernel-2.4.22-1.2166.nptl
kernel-smp-2.4.22-1.2166.nptl
kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2166.nptl
ltsp_kernel_i386_pxe-3.0-13.k12ltsp.0.4.0
ltsp_kernel_kitchen-sink-3.0-2.k12ltsp.2.3.0
kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-13

bash-2.05b$ rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.4.22-1.2166.nptl

Which stumps me.  Before the update I had at least 7 kernels showing 
when lilo came up.  Someof them were just older kernels, but I don't se 
them now.  An smp and the bigmem were also listed.  It was booting the 
bibmem, for no apparent reason, but it was working so I left it alone. 
I'm not sure what to remove here, either, and what to keep.
What's an nptl kernel?
I can't tell you how much I appreciate your assistance, btw.

I'm wondering if this output is significant:

bash-2.05b$ cd /usr/src/linux-2.4/kernel
bash-2.05b$ ls
acct.c         exit.c       kmod.c    printk.c    sys.c
capability.c   fork.c       ksyms.c   profile.c   sysctl.c
compat.c       futex.c      Makefile  ptrace.c    time.c
context.c      info.c       module.c  resource.c  timer.c
cpufreq.c      itimer.c     panic.c   sched.c     uid16.c
dma.c          kallsyms.c   pid.c     signal.c    user.c
exec_domain.c  kksymoops.c  pm.c      softirq.c

and

bash-2.05b$ cd /boot
bash-2.05b$ ls
boot.0300
boot.b
chain.b
config-2.4.22-1.2166.nptl
config-2.4.22-1.2166.nptlsmp
grub
initrd-2.4.22-1.2166.nptl.img
initrd-2.4.22-1.2166.nptlsmp.img
kernel.h
lost+found
map
message
module-info
os2_d.b
System.map
System.map-2.4.22-1.2166.nptl
System.map-2.4.22-1.2166.nptlsmp
vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2166.nptl
vmlinux-2.4.22-1.2166.nptlsmp
vmlinuz
vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2166.nptl
vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2166.nptlsmp



> should show the currently installed versions.  If there are quite
> a few, get rid of some with 'rpm -e ...'.  Then if you upgraded from
> CD's and haven't done an online update, do a 'yum update kernel' to
> install the latest available and fill in any missing pieces.  You
> may still have to patch up the grub installation or hand-edit
> /etc/lilo.conf
> 
> ---
>   Les Mikesell
>    les at futuresource.com
> 
> 
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