Re: previous problem sort of resolved

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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 21:53:59 -0600
To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 22:05:57 -0500, Jim <lawrence.jim@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 19:58:42 -0600, Jonathan Berry <berryja@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Did you get this problem solved? The last message in that thread that
> > I see from you says you were going to bed :). Let's not mix the
> > threads, so reply to that thread with more info if you have it. I

Oh well, I tried. I'm sending this to the list. Sorry forgot to not
send it directly to you. Be more careful to whom you are sending
replies, especially when gmail addresses are involved : ).

> > don't think the FC2 repos in the sources file is the problem, because
> > you definitely have the FC3 kernels from your "rpm -qa kernel" output.
> >
> > Jonathan
> this some cmds you had be try
> [jim@My_World ~]$ su -
> Password:
> [root@My_World ~]# cd /boot
> [root@My_World boot]# ls /
> bin dev home lib media mnt proc sbin srv tmp var
> boot etc initrd lost+found misc opt root selinux sys usr
> [root@My_World boot]# ls -l /boot
> total 2548
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51271 Nov 18 15:16 config-2.6.9-1.681_FC3
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 392464 Dec 21 21:24 initrd-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.img
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 724204 Nov 18 15:16 System.map-2.6.9-1.681_FC3
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1417598 Nov 18 15:16 vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3
> [root@My_World boot]# ls -l /etc/grub.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Jun 18 2004 /etc/grub.conf ->
> ../boot/grub/grub.conf[root@My_World boot]#
>
> /etc/grub.conf ->
> ../boot/grub/grub.conf[root@My_World boot]# <------ is in red

Yikes! You really don't have a /boot/grub/ directory! What is going
on here. I also only see the newest kernel images in /boot/ Which
kernel are you running? Try these three commands:
uname -a
fdisk -l
mount
cat /etc/fstab

The first will tell you what kernel you have. The only thing I can
come up with is that you (now?) have a seperate /boot/ partition and
things have gotten confused. Perhaps your /boot/ partition has the
original kernel and grub directory, so grub sees it fine, but the
partition is then not mounted. You then updated the machine, which
copied the new kernel into the /boot/ directory on the main partition.
 This would explain why your grub.conf was not updated, and why you
can only boot your old kernel. It's a long shot, maybe, but it's the
only thing I can think of. If this is what is happening, I don't have
a clue how you got there. Maybe something went wrong with labelling
somewhere? If you know the details of your partitions, send those
along with the output from the above commands.

Jonathan

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