[Yum] need help: installed FC5 kernel, now missing kernel-smp & grub...

[Rainer Traut]

Hi,

this is way offtopic (?), but I have had the same problem.

The problem is, your boot partition is not mounted anymore.
A simple
# mount -a
should bring you back on track. I'd reinstall the latest kernel.

I do not know why this happened, but I have seen this on two fc5 
machines, too, when updating the kernel!

Hth
Rainer


surabaja at gmail.com schrieb:
> 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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