Thanks to everyone for showing an interest in this. To answer some of the questins, here is some clarification of what I've got here: (copied from various screens) /dev/hda hda1, start@1, End@13, Size=102, Type=ext3 hda2, start@14, End@3737, Size+29212, Type=LVM Physical Volume /dev/hdb hdb1, start@1, End@1663, Size=13043, Type=LVM Physical Volume ----------------- The system only has FC3 - it has no other OS at all - AND it was configured by the original FC3 install CDs - accepted all the defaults. __________________ Now when I get into the system and search for a boot folder, I only one get under "/", and that contains: config-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 initrd-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.img vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 System.map-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 and a grub folder which is empty Now when the system boots, the boot screen only shows FC 667, and the boot screen reads: root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root= /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quite initrd/initrd--2.6.9-1.667.img Which of course is a different kernel to what's in /boot. The only grub.conf I have is in /etc and that is shown as "22 bytes (link broken)". And if I get to it from the file viewer and try and open it, it tells me "This link can't be used, because its target "/boot/grub/grub.conf" doesn't exist." The other puzzling thing for me an old doshead is that I cannot find the /vm file that apparently boots - ie I cannot find "vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667" on my system. All the documentation says that the machine is booting from /boot (or a reference to) - so where is this machine booting from? Now what I have found since starting to write this note is that I have two folders in /lib/modules, and one is called: "2.6.9-1.667" which is the version that boots, and the other is: "2.6.9-1.681_FC3" which is the one in the /boot directory which won't show up as a choice to boot (sorry to repeat myself). Both these folders contain trees leading to different hardware. For example the folder /lib/modules/2.6.9-1.667/build/arch/i386/boot exists - as do folders for sparc, sparc 64, mips, ia64 and so on. These boot folders all contain different things - but always the MAKE utility (if that's what you call it). The other aspect of this is that I have allowed up2date to do all the configuring on my machine - I don't even know enough to be dangerous. Hope someone can shine a light on this - it's increasing looking like broken links to me - but I have no idea where to look or how to fix. -- This is an email sent via the webforum on http://fcp.homelinux.org
