On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 18:51 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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. It's looking for a "template" grub.conf entry (e.g. the entry for your currently running kernel) to base the one for the to-be-installed kernel on. I don't know exactly how grubby identifies a suitable "template" entry but one way might be to look for the entry for a currently- installed kernel RPM and copy that one, so if your only existing kernel wasn't installed using RPM, that *might* be the cause of the problem. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
