[Yum] Updating Fedora Core #2

[seth vidal]

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 16:40 +0000, Tom W. wrote:
> Well I was now able to update to at least FC5 and I figured out why the 
> server didn't boot with the newer kernels.
> My provider gave me remote console access which makes debugging way easier.
> GRUB is empty.
> Yes, I'm not sure how this happens but I have to manually enter the kernel 
> it needs to boot.
> Does anyone know why this is? I checked /boot/grub/grub.conf and the kernels 
> are in there.
> I know I'm missing something.

are /sbin/grubby and /sbin/mkinitrd working and existent?

if not that would explain grub.conf being hosed.

-sv