[ale] Fedora Booting experts

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Mon Jun 22 16:18:46 EDT 2009


/boot on raid1 will not cause an issue. The BIOS will connect to what
it's told (sda, sdb, etc NOT md0). It keeps /boot in sync for a manual
bootup with a failed sda.

Basically, it sounds like the kernel upgrade failed or there is a
block on kernel upgrades (it's a yum plugin - found in
/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/).

try a removal of the kernel rpm and reinstall and check
/boot/grub/grub.conf to see if it upgraded the file. If not, do it
manually and follow the pattern there.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Greg Freemyer<greg.freemyer at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just realized my /boot partition is on a raid1 mdraid setup.
>
> I've never tried to have my grub setup files on a mdraid setup.  I
> suspect it is causing me issues.
>
> Advice very welcome about how to proceed.
>
> Thanks
> Greg
>
> 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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>
>
>
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