On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 19:25, Scott Talbot wrote: > On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 10:50, James Pifer wrote: > > I posted this to the redhat list, but there isn't much activity. I have > > a problem with grub on a redhat 9 machine that I'm hoping someone here > > might be able to help with. I have a Fedora system that appears to have > > the same problem. > > > > I installed a new kernel on the redhat 9 machine but do not see it in > > the menu on boot. I found that /boot/grub was empty. > > Is /boot empty as well? are the initrd, map and kernel files listed when > you ls /boot? > No, there were files in boot. > > I tried > > reinstalling grub as well as manually putting the missing files back in > > based on another redhat 9 system I have. > > > > /etc/grub.conf points to /boot/grub/grub.conf. I modified grub.conf and > > it looks like below, but I still only see the original kernel listed. > > Okay, if I read you correctly your /boot/grub/ was empty and you copied > files from another box, But your system booted with an empty /boot/grub? > > I recall seeing something like that before and I think that the problem > was deemed to be two /boot partitions on the same machine causing linux > to become confused. Is it possible you have 2 linux distros on your > machine? or maybe somewhere else you made an extra partition? I had recently added a second hard drive that had Linux already installed on it and it still had the boot partition and it was marked as bootable. Using fdisk I removed the /boot partition from the second drive, which of course also removed the extra boot flag. But when I reboot I get the same behavior. Only the original kernel in the menu to boot from. I also reran fdisk and verified the partition had been removed from that disk. > > To test the possibility of this, change the grub.conf file to something > that you can see upon boot, i.e. add 'test' to the title line or > something. I have modified grub.conf and made sure menu.lst points to grub. It still only shows me one option. I can't figure out where the heck it's getting it from. Here are the only grub.conf files on the system: # locate grub.conf /boot/grub/grub.conf /etc/grub.conf # ls -l /etc/grub.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Aug 30 20:20 /etc/grub.conf -> ../boot/grub/grub.conf # ls -l /boot/grub/grub.conf -rw------- 1 root root 550 Aug 30 20:20 /boot/grub/grub.conf [root@mythtv root]# Thanks for the help, James
