Michael and All,
Many thanks for the patient guidance!!!
I went larval with the manual on grub. Turns out that all I needed to do was invoke the "unhide" command in grub, which in turn made the /boot directory path show the contents of the /boot partition... at which point the entire exercize became trivial. Old kernels are gone, grub.conf edited to get rid of the old references in the splashmenu that would not go away before, and as if that was not enough RHN updates presented me with a new kernel version to install! The install went fine too... added itself to the grub menu and boot on the next restart.
The world is placid and (relatively speaking) at peace with itself.
Sanch
Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Mon, 16 May 2005 22:18:33 -0400, sancho wrote:
The boot up grub splash menu still shows all the deleted ones but will only boot up 2.4.21-27.EL without error. The splash menu does not show any of the three more recent ones that I can see are in the /boot directory.
That indicates that you have a grub.conf somewhere, which is loaded by GRUB when you boot the system. "find / -name grub.conf" might find it. Alternatively, in GRUB menu there's a command-line mode, which you can enter with key 'c' and then run "find /boot/grub.conf" or "find /grub.conf" to look for common locations of that file. If it finds it, the partition is printed.
Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Well, that's a surprise. "rpm --query grub ; rpm -V grub" gives what?
> If it's missing, you would need to re-install it before you would
> be able to construct /boot/grub/grub.conf.
>
rpm won't seem to let me install/refresh the latest kernel to the boot partition...
Why not? What error do you get? It would fail to add it to the apparently non-existant grub.conf, but it would install the files.
so I'll need to see if I can create a /boot/grub/grub.conf file that will work without cratering my server (I can't afford to go without right now!)
default=0 timeout=10 #splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title RHEL3 root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-VERSION ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-VERSION.img
This is a template. (hd0,0) is /dev/hda1, your /boot partition. You would need to substitute VERSION with your most recent kernel version, also for the generated initrd, and make sure that the / (root) partition has the correct partition label. Run e.g. "e2label /dev/hda2" to find out. Else specify the partition directly: root=/dev/hda2 (substitute hda2 accordingly)
Should I try using rpm to delete the three most recent kernels, then reinstall the latest to see if it goes to the boot partition and shows up in the grub splash menu? If I can't see/get to /boot/grub/grub.conf, how else might I delete the listings for the old kernels that I deleted using rpm?
In order to delete entries from your current boot loader menu, you must find the grub.conf which is loaded. It is a file on your file-system, provided that you use GRUB. Or did you install LILO at some point?
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