[Yum] need help: installed FC5 kernel, now missing kernel-smp & grub...
surabaja at gmail.com
surabaja at gmail.com
Wed Oct 4 07:32:29 UTC 2006
Hello,
I am (still) running FC5 kernel-smp on a single-disk Fedora-only dual core system.
I recently tried to install the non-smp kernel with yum (I wanted to try both version,
selecting via grub at startup).
Right after the update I took a look at /boot: apparently the original kernel
files /boot/*smp AND the directory /boot/grub have disappeared...
Could you please suggest corrective actions before rebooting the system?
Would "yum upgrade grub kernel-smp" fix the problem?
Thank you,
SJ
# uname -r ; yum --version
2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp
2.6.1
# grep kernel /var/log/yum.log
Sep 06 13:05:50 Installed: kernel-smp.i686 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5
Oct 02 14:38:55 Installed: kernel.i686 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5
# rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-smp-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5
kernel-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5
# rpm -V kernel-smp
missing /boot/System.map-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp
missing /boot/config-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp
missing /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp
missing /boot/System.map-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp
missing /boot/config-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp
missing /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp
# rpm -V grub
missing /boot/grub
# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
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