Hi, this is way offtopic (?), but I have had the same problem. The problem is, your boot partition is not mounted anymore. A simple # mount -a should bring you back on track. I'd reinstall the latest kernel. I do not know why this happened, but I have seen this on two fc5 machines, too, when updating the kernel! Hth Rainer surabaja@xxxxxxxxx schrieb: > Hello, > > I am (still) running FC5 kernel-smp on a single-disk Fedora-only dual > core system. > I recently tried to install the non-smp kernel with yum (I wanted to try > both version, > selecting via grub at startup). > > Right after the update I took a look at /boot: apparently the original > kernel > files /boot/*smp AND the directory /boot/grub have disappeared... > > Could you please suggest corrective actions before rebooting the system? > Would "yum upgrade grub kernel-smp" fix the problem? > > Thank you, > > SJ > > > # uname -r ; yum --version > 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp > 2.6.1 > > # grep kernel /var/log/yum.log > Sep 06 13:05:50 Installed: kernel-smp.i686 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 > Oct 02 14:38:55 Installed: kernel.i686 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 > > # rpm -qa | grep kernel > kernel-smp-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 > kernel-smp-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 > kernel-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 > > # rpm -V kernel-smp > missing /boot/System.map-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp > missing /boot/config-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp > missing /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp > missing /boot/System.map-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp > missing /boot/config-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp > missing /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp > > # rpm -V grub > missing /boot/grub > > # cat /etc/fstab > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults > 1 1 > LABEL=/boot1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/sdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults > 0 0 > > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum > >
