Ed McCanless wrote:
Yes, I am running all commands as root unless otherwise instructed.
OK, thanks. Just checking.
# ls -l /boot total 6938 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 865822 Aug 31 12:23 System.map-2.6.16.21-0.21-default -rw------- 1 root root 512 Aug 9 13:02 backup_mbr lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Aug 9 12:57 boot -> . -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 58614 Aug 31 12:29 config-2.6.16.21-0.21-default drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 512 Sep 15 13:11 grub lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Sep 15 13:09 initrd -> initrd-2.6.16.21-0.21-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2552567 Sep 15 13:09 initrd-2.6.16.21-0.21-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 134144 Aug 9 13:02 message -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 100440 Aug 31 12:30 symsets-2.6.16.21-0.21-default.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 326492 Aug 31 12:30 symtypes-2.6.16.21-0.21-default.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 89098 Aug 31 12:30 symvers-2.6.16.21-0.21-default.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1609084 Aug 31 12:28 vmlinux-2.6.16.21-0.21-default.gz lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Sep 15 13:09 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.16.21-0.21-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1341380 Aug 31 12:23 vmlinuz-2.6.16.21-0.21-default
OK, good. This looks like it is all correct. It is set to start the 2.6.16-0.21-default kernel.
# ls /lib/modules 2.6.16.21-0.13-default 2.6.16.21-0.21-default
# rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-default-2.6.16.21-0.21 kernel-docs-2.6.16.13-4 It looks like to me the upgrade of the kernel went OK. Something else is amiss. Since you mentioned uname -r gave you a different kernel, your problem must be in grub's menu.lst. Based on what you wrote above, I don't see how you can boot into a 2.6.16.13-4-default, since there is none in /boot. Could you send us your menu.lst.
-- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871