Can't restore Red Hat Ent V3 from tape

From: Dave (laporte1_at_charter.net)
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: 10 Sep 2004 09:38:20 -0700

Could someone help me, I am having trouble restoring a full system
backup tape which contained a good "bru" archive of my full and
updated
Operating system from / down. I had Red Hat Enterprise V3 installed
and about 3 months of updates, which included several updates to the
kernel
that I had noticed the kupdate program downloading and installing. My
latest
kernel on the system was vmlinuz-2.4.21-20.EL. My /etc/grub.conf
stated the
following after the updates.

kernel = /vmlinuz-2.4.21-20.EL Root=LABEL=/
initrd /inird-2.4.21-20.EL.img

kernel = /vmlinuz-2.4.21-15.0.4.EL ro Root=LABEL/
initrd /initrd-2.4.21-15.0.4.EL.img

kernel = /mvlinuz-2.4.21-15.EL ro Root=LABEL/
initrd /initrd-2.4.21-15.EL.img

     After I restore the full system backup tape and reboot, the
system
just boots to a black screen with the work "GRUB" and a flashing
cursor.
The system is totally unresponsive to any keyboard keys. I am
guessing
after restoring the tape backup the GRUB program can't locate the now
restored boot image that probably is in a new area on the HD.
     I have played around with running the command #grubby
--update-kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-20-.EL to see if it would update
any/or all
necessary entries to find the kernel on boot, but again after the
fifth
time of reloading everything and rebooting the system just comes back
to
a black screen with the word "GRUB".

Any help to this problem would be
greatly appreciated.

Please feel free to email me at "laporte1@charter.net"

Thanks

Dave LaPorte.

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