Re: previous problem sort of resolved

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On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:58:41 -0500, Jim <lawrence.jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> results of cmds you asked for
> ********************************************************************************
[snip]
> [root@My_World ~]# fdisk -l
> Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *           1        3824    30716248+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2            3825        9729    47431912+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5            3825        4085     2096451    7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda6            4086        5105     8193118+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda7            5106        5118      102280+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda8            5118        5249     1048288+  82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda9            5249        9729    35991112+  83  Linux
[snip]
> [root@My_World ~]# mount
> /dev/hda9 on / type ext3 (rw)
[snip]
> 
> [root@My_World ~]# cat /etc/fstab
> # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
> LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
[snip]
> /dev/hda8               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> 
[snip]
> *************************************************************************************

Wow, I think I was right.  Something was causing your /boot/ partition
to not be mounted.  And it wasn't mounted when you did the update, so
the new kernel was placed in the /boot/ folder.

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:14:38 -0500, Jim <lawrence.jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ok   i removed my second hard drive and low and behold!!!  i have a
> grub folder!!!
[snip]
> [root@My_World ~]# mount
> /dev/hda9 on / type ext3 (rw)
> none on /proc type proc (rw)
> none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
> /dev/hda7 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
> none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
> sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)

Looks like maybe your second hard disk has a label that is "/boot" or
something else causing it to not want to mount /boot.  You can edit
/etc/fstab and change the line:
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
to 
/dev/hda7             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
and you should be able to put your second hard drive back.  Now, you
can reinstall the newer kenel with /boot mounted properly.  Or you
could perhaps do this (as root):

umount /boot
mkdir /tmp/boot/
cp -a /boot/* /tmp/boot/
rm -f /boot/*
mount /boot
cp -a /tmp/boot/* /boot/
rm -fr /tmp/boot/

Then edit you grub.conf, now that you have found it : ).  Just copy
the old kernel section and change all the numbers to match the new
kernel.  Be careful when doing the "rm" commands above.  Be sure
things copied and /boot is not mounted for the first one.
This was certainly a strange one!  Hope you get it all straightened out.

Jonathan


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