I am new to linux and having some issues with my kernel update. I ran up2date
and was told I have a new kernel(2.6.10-1.766). However when I boot it does not show this kernel in grub, also my grub.conf file in /etc is missing . Has anyone had this issue before and if so how do I fix it?

your grub.conf file is located at /boot/grub/grub.conf

Check the kernel you are running by doing a


bash$ uname -r

if you want to boot a different kernel in your /boot directory, then edit the grub.conf file...

mine looks like this (just for reference):

#
#Sample boot menu configuration file
#

# Boot automatically after 30 secs.
timeout 10

# By default, boot the first entry.
default 1

# Fallback to the second entry.
fallback 0


title 2.6.9
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9 root=/dev/hda5


title 2.6.10
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10 root=/dev/hda5



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if you need any more help just reply to this

Isn't it named menu.lst? And to update it run 'update-grub'.

yes ... but there usually is a symlink. i know there is one with feodra core 3...which that kernel is for

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Nov 29 15:37 menu.lst -> grub.conf

thanks , I looked for grub in /boot . There is no grub directory my /boot directory lloks like this

config-2.6.10-1.760_FC3 System.map-2.6.10-1.760_FC3
config-2.6.10-1.766_FC3 System.map-2.6.10-1.766_FC3
initrd-2.6.10-1.760_FC3.img vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.760_FC3
initrd-2.6.10-1.766_FC3.img vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.766_FC3

when I search for grub it shows it in

/sbin/grub /etc/grub.conf /usr/share/grub /usr/share/man/man8/grub.8.gz

but the link in /etc/grub.conf is no good

what exactly do I need to do sorry, I'm extremely new at this

I checked my kernel I'm running

2.6.9-1.667

odd... i thought fedora 3 setup grub by default...
just to make sure its installed....

bash$ rpm -q grub

then try running:

bash$ /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda

where /dev/hda is your boot drive....
i'm not too framililar with this script.... i usally do it manually...
i think this should install grub and put /boot/grub.conf into place.


if it doesn't work let me know i'll talk you through the 'manual' way....



--eddie

I tried this is what i got

]# rpm -q grub
grub-0.95-3
]# /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.

any ideas?

weird... thats usually the error you get when you try to install grub on a software managed RAID 1...

i am a little confused.... i have 2 questions:

how did you install fedora?

what are you booting from...?/ how do you boot?


please show me the results from

bash$ fdisk -l

(thats lower case L)

just for reference.... this is how to do it by hand....might want to give that a shot


bash$ sudo grub --no-floppy

GNU GRUB version 0.94 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)

[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename. ]

grub> device (hd0) /dev/hda

grub> root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83

grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 26 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+26 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
Done.

grub>

I installed from disk everything seemed to work fine from that .
here are the results from fdisk -l ( I used lower case L)

]$ fdisk -l
bash: fdisk: command not found

I just tried to do it manually and this is what I got

as user

]$ sudo grub --no-floppy
jtush is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

as root

# sudo grub --no-floppy
sudo: grub: command not found

the disk I used to install were provided by my office several other people have used them only one other person had this issue
I Installed a work station with most packages except for KDFCE and Games

I got it to run using /sbin/grub
now I have a grub dir in /boot but I have no grub.conf
do I need to write one and if so how do I do it?

my grub directory looks like this in boot

device.map iso9660_stage1_5 stage1 xfs_stage1_5
e2fs_stage1_5 jfs_stage1_5 stage2
fat_stage1_5 minix_stage1_5 ufs2_stage1_5
ffs_stage1_5 reiserfs_stage1_5 vstafs_stage1_5