Hello,

I have an old centos server 5.11 with cpanel, and last day after a server update I notice that the running version of kernel it is not the same as the one present in /boot:

root@sol00 [/boot]# uname -r
2.6.18-274.el5

root@sol00 [/boot]# ls
./ ../ config-2.6.18-407.el5 grub/ initrd-2.6.18-407.el5.img symvers-2.6.18-407.el5.gz System.map-2.6.18-407.el5 vmlinuz-2.6.18-407.el5 .vmlinuz-2.6.18-407.el5.hmac

root@sol00 [/boot]# ls grub
./ ../

Also as you can see the grub directory is empty and there is no grub.conf file



this is my fstab

root@sol00 [/boot]# cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults,noatime,usrquota,grpquota 1 1
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/usr/tmpDSK /tmp ext3 defaults,noauto 0 0
/dev/cciss/c0d1p1 /mnt/datos ext3 rw 0 0

where LABEL=/ is /dev/cciss/c0d0p1


I have verify that GRUB is the loader doing this:

root@sol00 [/boot]# dd if=/dev/cciss/c0d0 bs=512 count=1 2>/dev/null | strings | grep -Eoi 'grub|lilo|acronis|reboot'
GRUB



And those my installed kernel that as you can see differs from running one:

root@sol00 [/boot]# rpm -qa | grep kernel | sort
kernel-2.6.18-407.el5
kernel-headers-2.6.18-407.el5


So I do not understand why server is booting fine if there is no grub.conf and why running kernel version differs from the installed one.

I hope you can help me, it is weird.

Thanks for your time.

Then post:
1. /boot/*
2. /boot/grub(2)/grub.conf

I do it again:

root@sol00 [/]# ls -alh /boot/
total 5,6M
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4,0K ene 8 16:45 ./
drwxr-xr-x 30 root root 4,0K ene 9 19:53 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 69K nov 11 14:40 config-2.6.18-407.el5
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K ene 9 13:12 grub/
-rw------- 1 root root 2,6M ene 8 16:45 initrd-2.6.18-407.el5.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 115K nov 11 14:40 symvers-2.6.18-407.el5.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 974K nov 11 14:40 System.map-2.6.18-407.el5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1,9M nov 11 14:40 vmlinuz-2.6.18-407.el5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 158 nov 11 14:40 .vmlinuz-2.6.18-407.el5.hmac
root@sol00 [/]# ls -alh /boot/grub/
total 12K
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4,0K ene 9 13:12 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4,0K ene 8 16:45 ../

There is no grub.conf ?

Is there a /boot/grub2?

There is no. It is really strage! and if I reebot the server it boots normally ...

what is the output of fdisk -l

root@sol00 [/]# fdisk -l

Disco /dev/cciss/c0d0: 299.9 GB, 299966445568 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36468 cylinders
Unidades = cilindros de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Disposit. Inicio Comienzo Fin Bloques Id Sistema
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 14 36468 292824787+ 8e Linux LVM

Disco /dev/cciss/c0d1: 900.1 GB, 900151926784 bytes
255 heads, 32 sectors/track, 215454 cylinders
Unidades = cilindros de 8160 * 512 = 4177920 bytes

Disposit. Inicio Comienzo Fin Bloques Id Sistema
/dev/cciss/c0d1p1 1 215454 879052304 83 Linux


root@sol00 [/]# df -kh
S.ficheros Tamaño Usado Disp Uso% Montado en
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 263G 232G 19G 93% /
tmpfs 3,0G 0 3,0G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/cciss/c0d1p1 826G 594G 190G 76% /mnt/datos
/usr/tmpDSK 1012M 34M 927M 4% /tmp

at grub boot menu hit c for command line then to see what the prefix for grub is. This should give you enough info to figure out where the grub.cfg is located that is being used

People, is called 'menu.lst', not grub.conf.

Try:

CentOS uses grub.conf instead of menu.lst although if I remember correctly, it usually had both files in the grub directory. CentOS 5.11 used Grub Legacy by default so if Grub2 is installed, the OP would have installed it and that would be something I would expect he would remember. Interesting problem though. I guess the good thing is that it still boots.

lol I was thinking the op was referring to grub.cfg with the grub.conf. Since the op has two drives grub boot may be on the other drive.

Ahh, sorry about the menu.lst noise, the files are missing. The simplest way to fix this, is to re-install grub on that machine, it should re-add all the files and regenerate the config file too (at least I think so).

what is the output of mount -l

this is the output:

root@sol00 [~]# mount -l
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,usrquota,grpquota) [/]
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/cciss/c0d1p1 on /mnt/datos type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
/usr/tmpDSK on /tmp type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,loop=/dev/loop0)
/tmp on /var/tmp type none (rw,noexec,nosuid,bind)

This is strange mount -l shows /dev/cciss/c0d0p1 on /. Isn't this the boot partition shouldn't /dev/cciss/c0d0p2 be mounted on / as a mounted lvm?