I thought I'd summarise this with a proper subject line:
1. We used up2date to upgrade the kernel of a 7.2 machine that is doing far
too much journalling (kjournald at 50% CPU+ often).
2. It installed fine, but when we reboot - GRUB only shows the old 2.4.7-10
although there are 3 kernels listed in grub.conf
My Question is "How can we select booting to 2.4.18-24.7 when GRUB lonly
lists the oldest kernel?"
Here are the contents of the directory /boot & also of grub.conf
<SNIP>
[root@ns5 boot]# ls -al
total 10908
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 6 09:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Feb 6 09:56 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5824 Jun 25 2001 boot.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 612 Jun 25 2001 chain.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42268 Nov 14 01:50 config-2.4.18-18.7.x
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42257 Jan 31 12:20 config-2.4.18-24.7.x
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 6 09:16 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 126906 Dec 16 10:34
initrd-2.4.18-18.7.x.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 127368 Feb 6 09:15
initrd-2.4.18-24.7.x.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 337546 Feb 22 2002 initrd-2.4.7-10.img
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Dec 16 10:33 kernel.h ->
kernel.h-2.4.9
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 405 Dec 16 10:33 kernel.h-2.4.9
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23108 Jun 25 2001 message
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Feb 6 09:15 module-info ->
module-info-2.4.18-24.7.x
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15436 Nov 14 01:50
module-info-2.4.18-18.7.x
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15436 Jan 31 12:20
module-info-2.4.18-24.7.x
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13598 Sep 6 2001 module-info-2.4.7-10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 640 Jun 25 2001 os2_d.b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 6 09:27 System.map ->
System.map-2.4.7-10
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 490460 Nov 14 01:50
System.map-2.4.18-18.7.x
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 490643 Jan 31 12:20
System.map-2.4.18-24.7.x
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 435039 Sep 6 2001 System.map-2.4.7-10
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2983920 Nov 14 01:50
vmlinux-2.4.18-18.7.x
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2986554 Jan 31 12:20
vmlinux-2.4.18-24.7.x
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Feb 6 09:15 vmlinuz ->
vmlinuz-2.4.18-24.7.x
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1064284 Nov 14 01:50
vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.7.x
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1064546 Jan 31 12:20
vmlinuz-2.4.18-24.7.x
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 802068 Sep 6 2001 vmlinuz-2.4.7-10
</SNIP>
<SNIP>
[root@ns5 grub]# cat grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/md0
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-24.7.x)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-24.7.x ro root=/dev/md0
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-24.7.x.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-18.7.x)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-18.7.x ro root=/dev/md0
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-18.7.x.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/md0
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img
</SNIP>
The ONLY oddity I can see is that the symblink in /boot below might be
wrong:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 Feb 6 09:27 System.map ->
System.map-2.4.7-10
Surely this should point to System.map-2.4.18-24.7.x
Can anyone suggest why GRUB is not showing all 3 kernels & why we are not
booting into the leatest?
Many thanks to all.
Regards,
Nico Morrison - Director
nico.morrison@micronicos.com
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