Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-31 Thread fred smith
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:37:45AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 8/31/2010 11:24 AM, fred smith wrote: > > > >> Most importantly, the "mdmonitor" service should have emailed the root > >> user to notify you that your arrays are broken. You should find out why > >> you aren't getting that email.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-31 Thread Les Mikesell
On 8/31/2010 11:24 AM, fred smith wrote: > >> Most importantly, the "mdmonitor" service should have emailed the root >> user to notify you that your arrays are broken. You should find out why >> you aren't getting that email. > > actually, root got it, but I'm rather lax about checking root's emai

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-31 Thread fred smith
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 08:55:47AM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 08/31/2010 06:44 AM, fred smith wrote: > > > > there are only two drives in this mirrored array, sda and sdb. if I need > > to re-add them both (which, if I understand mdadm correctly, is what your > > suggestion above would do) h

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-31 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/31/2010 06:44 AM, fred smith wrote: > > there are only two drives in this mirrored array, sda and sdb. if I need > to re-add them both (which, if I understand mdadm correctly, is what your > suggestion above would do) how does it know which one is the correct one > to re-sync the array with?

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-31 Thread Keith Roberts
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, fred smith wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: fred smith > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, > not booting latest kernel but older one instead > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 08:18:26AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: >> At Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:24

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-31 Thread Robert Heller
At Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:44:53 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 09:13:07PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > > On 08/30/2010 07:24 PM, fred smith wrote: > > > Aug 30 22:09:08 fcshome kernel: md: created md1 > > ... > > > Aug 30 22:09:08 fcshome kernel: md: kicking non-fre

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-31 Thread m . roth
fred smith wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 08:18:26AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: >> At Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:24:19 -0400 CentOS mailing list >> wrote: >> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 08:41:31PM -0500, Larry Vaden wrote: >> > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:18 PM, fred smith >> > > wrote: > drive when t

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-31 Thread fred smith
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 08:18:26AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote: > At Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:24:19 -0400 CentOS mailing list > wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 08:41:31PM -0500, Larry Vaden wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:18 PM, fred smith > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Below is some i

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-31 Thread fred smith
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 09:13:07PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 08/30/2010 07:24 PM, fred smith wrote: > > Aug 30 22:09:08 fcshome kernel: md: created md1 > ... > > Aug 30 22:09:08 fcshome kernel: md: kicking non-fresh sda2 from array! > ... > > Aug 30 22:09:08 fcshome kernel: md: created md0

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-31 Thread fred smith
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:46:26PM -0500, Robert wrote: > > > On 08/30/2010 09:24 PM, fred smith informed us: > > another curious thing I just noticed is this: the list of kernels > available > > at boot time (in the actual grub menu shown at boot) IS NOT THE SAME LIST > > THAT APPEARS IN GRUB.

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-31 Thread Robert Heller
At Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:24:19 -0400 CentOS mailing list wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 08:41:31PM -0500, Larry Vaden wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:18 PM, fred smith > > wrote: > > > > > > Below is some info that shows the problem. Can anyone here provide > > > helpful suggestions on

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-31 Thread Keith Roberts
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Keith Roberts wrote: > On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, fred smith wrote: > >> To: centos@centos.org >> From: fred smith >> Subject: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead snip >> # grub.conf generated by anaconda >>

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-31 Thread Keith Roberts
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, kalinix wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list > From: kalinix > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, > not booting latest kernel but older one instead > > On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 07:23 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: > >> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, fred smi

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-30 Thread kalinix
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 07:23 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: > On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, fred smith wrote: > > > To: centos@centos.org > > From: fred smith > > Subject: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one > > instead > > > > I've

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-30 Thread Keith Roberts
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, fred smith wrote: > To: centos@centos.org > From: fred smith > Subject: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead > > I've been going along not noticing things happening right under my nose. > so imagine my surprise when

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-30 Thread fred smith
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 11:05:50PM -0400, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: > > another curious thing I just noticed is this: the list of kernels > > available at boot time (in the actual grub menu shown at boot) IS NOT > > THE SAME LIST THAT APPEARS IN GRUB.CONF. in the boot-time menu, the > > kernel it bo

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/30/2010 07:24 PM, fred smith wrote: > Aug 30 22:09:08 fcshome kernel: md: created md1 ... > Aug 30 22:09:08 fcshome kernel: md: kicking non-fresh sda2 from array! ... > Aug 30 22:09:08 fcshome kernel: md: created md0 ... > Aug 30 22:09:08 fcshome kernel: md: kicking non-fresh sda1 from array!

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-30 Thread Robert
On 08/30/2010 09:24 PM, fred smith informed us: another curious thing I just noticed is this: the list of kernels available > at boot time (in the actual grub menu shown at boot) IS NOT THE SAME LIST > THAT APPEARS IN GRUB.CONF. in the boot-time menu, the kernel it boots is > the most recent on

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-30 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
> another curious thing I just noticed is this: the list of kernels > available at boot time (in the actual grub menu shown at boot) IS NOT > THE SAME LIST THAT APPEARS IN GRUB.CONF. in the boot-time menu, the > kernel it boots is the most recent one shown, and there are other > older ones that do

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-30 Thread fred smith
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 08:41:31PM -0500, Larry Vaden wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:18 PM, fred smith > wrote: > > > > Below is some info that shows the problem. Can anyone here provide > > helpful suggestions on (1) why it is doing this, and more importantly (2) > > how I can make it stop? >

Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-30 Thread Larry Vaden
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:18 PM, fred smith wrote: > > Below is some info that shows the problem. Can anyone here provide > helpful suggestions on (1) why it is doing this, and more importantly (2) > how I can make it stop? Is there a chance /boot is full (read: are all the menu'd kernels actuall

[CentOS] Centos 5.5, not booting latest kernel but older one instead

2010-08-30 Thread fred smith
I've been going along not noticing things happening right under my nose. so imagine my surprise when I discovered last night that my Centos 5 box has installed multiple new kernels over the last few months, as updates come out, and IT IS NOT BOOTING THE NEWST ONE. grub.conf says to boot kernel 0,