Ed McCanless wrote:
OK, the command "rpm -V kernel-default" gives me nothing -- just returns to the command prompt. That's shorter than I expected. But very good news. Rpm says the kernel upgrade worked.
ls -R /lib/modules/2.6.16.21-0.21-default/ gives me a 36.7 KB file that looks complete, which I can send if it's not too large for the list. Not necessary. I think that conforms rpm is correct. Given this, I don't believe reinstalling the kernel will help, but I think you are very close. My CD burner is still working. Is this the kernel tree you referred to, or is that something else I need to know how to access? That is it. I called it a tree because of its directory structure containing the modules. Also, my machine is working, partly. Just wont boot on its own, play sound, recognize my Ethernet card, and I don't know how many other things.
OK, so since your kernel is ok, /boot looks good, and your menu.lst is good, it must have messed up installing grub. Why the kernel rpm thinks it needs to mess with grubs installation is beside me, but I have seen this in 10.1 and yet do not understand it. I believe you will be working again by reinstalling grub through grub. Do the following as root at the cli. grub (this will enter a grub prompt, like grub>) From the grub prompt, enter root (hd0,1) this will give info about the filesystem. then, after this setup (hd0) it should check on stage 1, 2, and the filesystems 1.5, then embed stage1.5 and install stage 1 and 2 quit this will leave grub now you should be able to reboot.
This thread is getting pretty long. Should I go back thru all this mail and try to compile a short summary?
You just did, when you said it just won't boot on its own. Hope that gets it. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871