On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 12:43:03PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 10:30 AM -0600 10/21/06, Charles Curley wrote: > > > >For what it's worth, I just hit the same problem on applying the new > >kernel (2200), and applied the same solution before searching the > >archives and finding this thread. I have not seen this problem with > >other updates. > > > >Is there something peculiar to the way this kernel operates that > >caused this? I don't think this is due to grub, as I don't see any > >grub upgrades in my yum.log*. > > > >http://www.charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html > > Upon reflection, I think that the only affect that the new kernel had was > to fill up more of the volume. I think that the machine had been a hostage > to fortune ever since I upgraded from FC3 to FC5, which re-installed grub: > I did not copy the new boot sector to replace the chaining file used by > NTLDR. When finally the old, rm'd stage1.5 was overwritten, the machine > stopped booting. The lesson is to make a new copy of the boot sector when > grub is re-installed. Could be. I originally installed FC4 on this thing, then cleaned it out and installed FC5. I don't recall whether I updated the boot sector image file to the XP partition or not, so I likely did not. Thanks > > > >Tony, have you filed a bug on this? I don't see one but may not have > >used the correct search keywords or some such. > > No. I don't think there is a bug. Agreed. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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