----- Original Message ----- From: "ne..." <akabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 7:23 AM
Subject: Re: yum update 2179 kernel
On Apr 20, 2004 at 06:24, John Fleming in a soothing rage wrote:
Do you have a separate boot partition? Maybe it's not getting mounted.
If
grub was initially installed to this partition it would still be used
for
booting, and for storing the original kernels but you wouldn't see
those
kernels when the system was running.
Check the partition table and contents of /etc/fstab.
Here's my fstab file:
[root@wa9als etc]# cat fstab|more LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1
1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1
2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0
0
none /proc proc defaults 0
0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0
0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0
0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
noauto,owner,kudzu 0
0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,r o 0 0
So what is the output of mount or df? This will tell us whether your /boot partition is mounted.
[root@wa9als root]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 37318128 2596064 32826396 8% /
[root@wa9als root]# mount /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw) none on /proc type proc (rw) none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) [root@wa9als root]#
Well, for some reason your /boot partition isn't mounted. Is there any error in /var/log/messages which might indicate why?
Try mounting it and see if it is ok.
There may be some confusion in the system as to which kernel is actually installed since the updated kernel was installed when /boot was not mounted. What does rpm say if you 'rpm -q kernel'? Also, do you have the modules for both kernels, what's in /lib/modules?
You will likely have to move the contents of /boot elsewhere, when /boot is not mounted. Them mount /boot and move the contents back to get the new kernel in it's proper place.
--
Nigel Wade, System Administrator, Space Plasma Physics Group,
University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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