Hello Juri & Others, I have found a difference between the setups of the machines that upgraded kernel OK and the 1 that did not. We thought we had setup all these machines as: [root@co1 /]# df -k Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/md0 38480340 505032 36020604 2% / /dev/hdb1 69973 17976 48384 28% /boot none 511552 0 511552 0% /dev/shm Where md0 is a large RAID1 partition for everything but /boot But the machine with the problem has: [root@ns5 boot]# df -k Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/md0 36463784 5642076 28969420 17% / none 510400 0 510400 0% /dev/shm Where /boot is ALSO on the RAID1 partition ( this must have been a mistake at setup time ..... although the machine works fine apart from a LOT of kjournald activity (up to 60% CPU!).) Could this be causing GRUB not to see the other kernels & if so what can we do? This is a busy public server with several 100 users ......... we have to be v careful doing anything. Regards, Nico Morrison nico.morrison@micronicos.com ___________________________________________ Micronicos Limited - London, UK. Tel: +44 20 8870 8849 Fax: +44 20 8870 5290 ___________________________________________ From: Juri Haberland [mailto:juri@koschikode.com] Sent: 06 February 2003 12:53 To: ext3 users list Subject: Re: Why does old kernel boot when new kernel installed? Nico Morrison wrote: > Hello, > > Yes - verified with uname -a > Last night I did kernel upgrades of 3 other machines & all went through just > fine ..... only this 1 machine has this problem? > > In answer - only 1 grub.conf Is it possible that you have a /boot partition that get's mounted over the real /boot? I noticed looking at your grub.conf that it tells something about your server not having a separate /boot partition. So everything is setup to be on the / partition. If, for some unknown reason, you do have a /boot partition that gets mounted, all changes to the kernels and grub.conf will be on that partition but at boot time grub will look at the / partition where no changes occurred. Uhm, is it understandable what I just wrote? Regards, Juri _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
