On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 15:14 -0700, Dan Hensley wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 17:59 +0000, tokyoi@xxxxxxx wrote: > > Dan Hensley wrote: > > > > >[...] I ordered a new hard drive that should arrive tomorrow in case it's a > > >hardware problem. My motherboard or BIOS may also have something to do > > >with it, but I'm not sure. Right now my system is up and running > > >because I built a boot floppy. But I see another kernel update waiting > > >to be installed. I hesitate to download it because I don't know what > > >kind of mess it will make with my system. > > > > > > > > > Say, > > > > man yum > > > > and have a look at the exclude option -- if you're happy with a kernel > > you can stop yum updating it until, say, a security issue makes updating > > the kernel a good idea. > > I know how to exclude updates. The point is that twice in the past > month after doing updates GRUB has been thrashed on my boot disk so it > won't boot. And this time it was difficult to fix. > > I don't know if it's due to a hardware problem (hard drive? > motherboard?) or due to yum, or rpm, or grub, or something else. It > seems that no one else knows. But it's also apparent that I'm not the > only one to have experienced this. So it makes me suspect that it's a > software problem. I've been updating six FC6 machines (One Intel 32-bit, one AMD 32-bit, two Athlon 64s, one Athlon 64/X2 and one Opteron 1210) since FC6 came out and have never had a grub corruption issue. I suspect hardware at your end. Your drive was questionable, as you found out. You may have a bad RAM stick (pop your sticks out, reseat them and run memtest86) or your power supply may be getting weak (slap on a DMM and check it). You'd be amazed at how weird a machine can get if the power supply is dying. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - The Navy's a bunch of wimps! MY job's an adventure! - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
