On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 18:22 -0500, Jonathan Berry wrote: > I think your problem is that you have a boot partition, but that > partition is not getting mounted. Notice that you are booting a > kernel that is not there! So GRUB can find it, as well as itself, but > since it is not properly mounted (the /boot directory, that is) you > cannot see either. Also, you cannot boot your new kernels because RPM > could not find the grub.conf when you updated your kernel. I suggest > removing the newer kernels, mounting your /boot partition, and then > reinstalling the newer kernels. > What partitions do you have? (run "fdisk -l" as root) What is in > your /etc/fstab file? I have seen someone else with this problem, I > wonder what causes a system to not mount the /boot partition after > install. Perhaps fstab wasn't created properly? Jack, how did you > initially partition your disk? (With Disk Druid, or fdisk?) > > Jonathan thanks for the reply. i had the installer do the partitioning automatically. i didn't configure it to have a separate boot partition but i guess it did and i didn't catch it. from fdisk -l i get: Disk /dev/hde: 20.4 GB, 20485785600 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2490 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hde1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hde2 14 2490 19896502+ 8e Linux LVM Disk /dev/hdf: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 79656 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdf1 * 1 203 102280+ 83 Linux /dev/hdf2 204 77836 39127032 83 Linux /dev/hdf3 77837 79656 917280 82 Linux swap in my /boot directory i have: config-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 System.map-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 config-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 System.map-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 initrd-2.6.10-1.770_FC3.img vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.770_FC3 initrd-2.6.11-1.14_FC3.img vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.14_FC3 i've run mount /dev/hde2 /MOUNT (i created MOUNT to see what was on /dev/hde1) and it contains; config-2.6.9-1.667 initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img System.map-2.6.9-1.667 grub lost+found vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 so i'm assuming i need to mount this before i upgrade the kernels. however, if i mount this into /boot won't it overwrite the current contents of /boot? thanks again for your help. -- jack wallen, jr email: jlwallen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx web: http://www.monkeypantz.net aim: linuxula or maryjcapri public key: http://www.monkeypantz.net/jlwallen.asc
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