I don't think this made it to the list yesterday. At least I never saw
it show up.
-chuck
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Subject: install problem
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 19:50:20 -0500
From: Chuck Campbell <campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Organization: ACCEL Services, Inc.
To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx>
CC: campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxx
I shot myself in the foot today. I had a centos 5.11 install running
fine. Doing a backup, I overwrote the /bin directory by mistake.
I couldn't get my machine to recognize a centos 6.5 or 6.6 install dvd,
so I put in the original centos 5.10 install disc and re-installed. No
problem. During the text installer, I told it to install grub on
/dev/sdc1, which is /boot. My raid arrays with lots of data (still
intact) are /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, so I didn't want it to install grub
on the MBR of /dev/sda.
When I power it on, the kernel selection comes up, I select the (only)
kernel and it says:
Booting 'Centos (2.6.18-371.el5)'
root (hd2,0)
filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type is 0x83
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-371.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
Error 15: file not found
Press any key to continue
So it is finding the /boot/grub/grub.conf and reading it correctly.
/boot (/dev/sdc1) actually contains the vmlinux-2.6.18-371.el5 file as
well as all the other related files that belong there.
I installed onto the same hard disk that the last OS was on,
reformatting the /, /boot, /usr partitions and installing to them. /boot
is /dev/sdc1 and / is on /dev/sdc5. No errors or problems in the install.
should the root (hd2,0) line above actually read root (hd2,4) where the
real / partition is (/dev/sdc5)??
I booted linux rescue with the 5.10 install disk, and I see that the
/boot/grub/grub.conf file looks correct, and all the correct files are
there in /boot. I am confused and don't know what to do next.
thanks,
-chuck
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