Yeah.. I did some study on this via google, and found out that error only comes up when you have lilo installed.
But remember the lilo.conf file was basically void of any kernel stuff in there. So instead of the RPM correctly updating both grub.conf and lilo.conf, it did update grub.conf correctly (since I have since applied it to other RH8 machines), but did not do lilo.conf correctly - since I can only assume it removed the old kernel entries from lilo.conf but didn't add the new ones. So I emailed the datacentre support guys, told them to add the correct lilo lines, which they did, and brought up the server again. They told me I "misconfigured the server", but I wasn't about to argue the point when they charge for their time. Red Hat should've gotten this right in my opinion, but now I know the error, I'll recognise it in future updates and patches. Thanks. Michael. --- Michael Fratoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 26 May 2003 10:30 pm, Michael Mansour > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a dedicated server in a remote location > > (internationally) running RH8. I applied the > following > > kernel to fix the recently reported exploit, and > got > > the following error: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] up2date]# rpm -Uvh > > kernel-2.4.20-13.8.i686.rpm > > Preparing... > > ########################################### [100%] > > 1:kernel > > ########################################### [100%] > > grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable > template > > grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable > template > > Fatal: No images have been defined. > > You ran rpm -Uvh on a kernel package. Upgrading the > kernel removes the old > kernel first, then installs the new one. Removing > the kernel also removes > it's configuration from grub.conf. (Which I assume > is what grubby is > complaining about.) > rpm -ivh is suggested for kernels, as it leaves the > old kernel in place > and adds the new one. > > [snip] > > Although I wasn't sure whether the machine was > using > > lilo or grub (the datacentre built a basic RH8 > machine > > for me which I then configured), I checked > lilo.conf: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# cat /etc/lilo.conf > > prompt > > timeout=50 > > boot=/dev/hda > > map=/boot/map > > install=/boot/boot.b > > message=/boot/message > > lba32 > > > > From these entries I assumed LILO wasn't being > used. > > Hrmm, on my machines using grub, lilo.conf doesn't > exist: > $ ls /etc/grub* > /etc/grub.conf > $ ls /etc/lilo* > /etc/lilo.conf.anaconda > > > After booting the box, the box no longer comes up. > > Without local console access I also don't know > what > > wrong with it. I have raised an urgent call with > the > > server provider but they are very slow getting > back to > > me (it's been over 24hours already), so I thought > I'd > > ask here. > > I'd guess you'll need to wait for the data center, > and have them boot into > rescue mode to recover. > > - -- > - -Michael > > pgp key: > http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt > Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: > http://www.rule-project.org/ > - -- > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+0tR/n/07WoAb/SsRAqKJAJ9v9lxJYpVlYUtjMP+UuCT8f19XgwCbBHMj > 9nc5A/i27rJlMm3p31gPSUU= > =S8aB > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
