On 04/07/2012 02:07 PM, Thomas Backlund wrote:
07.04.2012 20:59, imnotpc skrev:
On 04/07/2012 12:43 PM, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
2012/4/7 imnotpc<[email protected]>:
On 04/07/2012 09:35 AM, Frank Griffin wrote:
On 04/07/2012 08:51 AM, imnotpc wrote:
I just discovered that when a new kernel package is installed the grub
menu entry is added to the bottom rather than the top. The result is that
the original kernel remains the default and new kernels not used. Most of my
systems are only accessed through ssh so I had no idea the new kernels
weren't being used and this only came to my attention today when another
update, probably dbus, broke the old kernel and hung all my boxes during
reboot.
I would think that if you install an update the expectation is that it
would be used by default. I haven't had time to check yet, but this may also
be the cause of other bugs I've been having. Is this a bug or intended
behavior?
Not so. The default uses the symlinks for vmlinuz and initrd which are
version-independent, and the kernel install redefines them to point to the
new kernel. The entry tacked on to the end uses the new versoins by name,
and is there so that after the next new kernel comes along you'll have an
entry to boot this one if you need to.
So the first and last menu entry are the same most recent version? Then this
is probably a bug since the symlink entry won't boot but the entry at the
bottom that lists the version by name boots fine.
Then something went wrong during installation of the new kernel. Could
you please show the output of
$ ls -l /boot
I don't think it effects this output, but just so you know I deleted
most of the unused entries from the grub menu and moved the most recent
version to the top so it would boot again if there was a power failure.
The curious thing is I expected vmlinuz-3.3.1-desktop-1.mga2 to be here
but it isn't. This box has received every update that has come out.
[root@Cedar1 jalaramie]# ls -l /boot
total 20792
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 440 Apr 7 08:14 boot.backup.sda
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Apr 7 08:17 config ->
config-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 135041 Feb 16 09:36 config-3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 136931 Apr 4 06:15 config-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 21 19:03 dracut/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 537088 Apr 3 14:22 gfxmenu*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 7 08:14 grub/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5715971 Apr 3 14:22 initrd-3.2.6-desktop-3.mga2.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5733762 Apr 5 07:32 initrd-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2.img
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 5 07:32 initrd-desktop.img ->
initrd-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2.img
You are missing the symlink initrd.img -> initrd-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2.img
that is used on default setups...
--
Thomas
I found this in the system log for this box:
Apr 5 07:31:32 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: HDIO_GETGEO on /dev/sda
succeeded: heads=255 sectors=63 cylinders=9729 start=0
Apr 5 07:31:32 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: id2hd: 0x0007920f=>sda
Apr 5 07:31:32 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: id2edd:
0x0007920f=>/sys/firmware/edd/int13_dev80
Apr 5 07:31:32 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: geometry_from_edd sda
0x0007920f: 9729/255/63
Apr 5 07:31:32 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: test_for_bad_drives(/dev/sda
on sector #62)
Apr 5 07:31:32 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: running: blkid -o udev -p
/dev/sda
Apr 5 07:31:32 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: running: blkid -o udev -p
/dev/sda
Apr 5 07:31:32 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: found a dos partition table on
/dev/sda at sector 0
Apr 5 07:31:32 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]:
guess_geometry_from_partition_table sda: 9729/255/63
Apr 5 07:31:32 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: running: blkid -o udev -p
/dev/sda1
Apr 5 07:31:33 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: blkid gave: swap
9b788175-efe0-41a6-8220-8c3e4b7e0dd4
Apr 5 07:31:33 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: running: blkid -o udev -p
/dev/sda5
Apr 5 07:31:33 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: blkid gave: ext4
3d52f62b-fb08-4018-b0e5-5c792022be76
Apr 5 07:31:33 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: running: blkid -o udev -p
/dev/sda6
Apr 5 07:31:33 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: blkid gave: ext4
143f3efc-a8da-4470-819e-94b6d1342ef2
Apr 5 07:31:34 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: perImageAppend is now splash
quiet resume=UUID=9b788175-efe0-41a6-8220-8c3e4b7e0dd4
Apr 5 07:31:34 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: adding
/boot/vmlinuz-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
Apr 5 07:31:34 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: running: mkinitrd -f
/boot/initrd-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2.img 3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
Apr 5 07:32:00 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: running:
/usr/share/bootsplash/scripts/make-boot-splash
/boot/initrd-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2.img 800
Apr 5 07:32:10 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: ERROR: /boot/initrd.img is not
a symbolic link
Apr 5 07:32:10 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: replacing /boot/vmlinuz with
/boot/vmlinuz-3.3.1-desktop-1.mga2 for bootloader label linux
Apr 5 07:32:10 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: entries linux do not have same
kernel_or_dev: /boot/vmlinuz-3.3.1-desktop-1.mga2 ne /boot/vmlinuz
Apr 5 07:32:10 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: entries desktop 3.3.1-1.mga2
do not have same initrd: /boot/initrd-3.3.1-desktop-1.mga2.img ne
/boot/initrd.img
Apr 5 07:32:10 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: current labels: linux
linux-nonfb failsafe desktop 3.2.6-3.mga2 desktop 3.3.1-1.mga2 alt_desktop
3.3.1-1.mga2
Apr 5 07:32:10 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: adding
/boot/vmlinuz-3.3.1-desktop-2.mga2
Apr 5 07:32:10 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: current labels: linux
linux-nonfb failsafe desktop 3.2.6-3.mga2 desktop 3.3.1-1.mga2 alt_desktop
3.3.1-1.mga2 desktop 3.3.1-2.mga2
Apr 5 07:32:10 Cedar1 bootloader-config[12407]: writing grub config to
/boot/grub/menu.lst
