[ale] Fedora Booting experts

[Dennis Ruzeski]

vginfo, I think.


--Dennis



On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer at gmail.com>wrote:

> How do I know what /dev/md0 is composed of?
>
> == details
>
> I think it is /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1, but if true I have a broken mirror
>
> Following up on the idea that /dev/md0 is my real issue I did the
> following:
>
> [root at IndexEngine grub]# strings /dev/sda1 > /tmp/it-a
> [root at IndexEngine grub]# grep Fedora /tmp/it-a > /tmp/it1-a
> [root at IndexEngine grub]# cat /tmp/it1-a
> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
>
> Where are the rest of the Fedora entries??   Lets look on the other
> half of the mirror.
>
> [root at IndexEngine grub]# strings /dev/sdb1 > /tmp/it-b
> [root at IndexEngine grub]# grep Fedora /tmp/it-b > /tmp/it1-b
> [root at IndexEngine grub]# cat /tmp/it1-b
> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.ie.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.ie.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.ie.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.ie.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.ie.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.ie.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.ie.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.ie.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.ie.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.ie.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.ie.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.ie.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.ie.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.ie.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.ie.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.22.9-91.ie.fc7)
> title Fedora (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)
>
> Something very fishy.
>
> Greg
>
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Jim Kinney<jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You want to edit /boot/grub/grub.conf
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Greg Freemyer<greg.freemyer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> All,
> >>
> >> I normally run suse, but I've got one appliance that is running Fedora
> >> so maybe I'm not troubleshooting this right.
> >>
> >> I upgraded the kernel via rpm a few weeks ago, but now realize I'm
> >> still running the old one.
> >>
> >> I've just rebooted and hit the space bar at the right time to see the
> >> grub boot menu.  It has a single entry for a 2.6.21 kernel.  Nothing
> >> else to choose.
> >>
> >> But if I look at /boot/grub/menu.lst I see three menu choices.  The
> >> first one is the default and it is 2.6.22 which is what I want.  I
> >> guess that file might be corrupt, but it looks okay to me.
> >>
> >> I did a "find / -name menu.lst" but I only have the one file.
> >>
> >> Any ideas on where else to look?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Greg
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