Paul Howarth wrote: >> It doesn't really matter to me, >> but when I did "yum update" just now >> I got the following warning message when installing a new kernel: >> "grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template". >> >> What puzzles me about this is that there appears to be >> a perfectly good entry in /etc/grub.conf re this kernel, >> so I don't understand how grub could have made a fatal error. >> >> Also, I don't understand why it complains that it could not find >> a suitable template, since again it seems to have done >> exactly what it is meant to do. >> >> Here is the entry in /etc/grub.conf : >> =========================================== >> title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.724_FC3) >> root (hd0,1) >> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.724_FC3 ro root=/dev/sda5 >> initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.724_FC3.img >> ============================================ > > Was there another, similar entry, still present for the kernel you were > running when you did the "yum update"? I'm not sure what you mean. I'm actually running linux-2.6.10 (which I compiled), and there is an entry for that in /etc/grub: ============================================ title Fedora Core (2.6.10) root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10 ro root=/dev/sda5 initrd /initrd-2.6.10.img ============================================ As I said, I don't understand what the "fatal error" is, or what "template" grub was looking for. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland