Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-10 Thread Simon Matter
Unfortunately, I live out with the cows, so I am using DSL to download the latest - it will take awhile. It has been awhile since I downloaded the four disks, however I assume disk 1 contains all that I need to do a rescue. Yes that's correct, you need to download only disk 1. Once I get

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-10 Thread Todd Cary
Well, I have the disks in hand - all 4, but there is the overriding level of apprehension. Is there a reference to what I should do *if* I cannot reboot that I should read? Also, after reading the responses to my query about using FAT32 to store data, I decided to follow the suggestions to

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-10 Thread Simon Matter
Well, I have the disks in hand - all 4, but there is the overriding level of apprehension. Is there a reference to what I should do *if* I cannot reboot that I should read? As I said before, you may need to run grub-install, but I don't know for sure. And then, you have to know where to

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-10 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Simon Matter simon.mat...@invoca.ch wrote: Well, I have the disks in hand - all 4, but there is the overriding level of apprehension.  Is there a reference to what I should do *if* I cannot reboot that I should read? As I said before, you may need to run

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-09 Thread Simon Matter
I inadvertently missed using the list...here are my recent messages. As Nico suggested, download the kernel but also grub and redhat-logos, like so wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/4.9/updates/i386/RPMS/kernel-2.6.9-100.EL.i686.rpm wget

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-09 Thread Todd Cary
Simon - I performed the tasks as outlined and here are the contents of /boot: /boot/: total 25121 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 9216 Mar 9 10:31 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jan 24 08:34 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root51676 Feb 17 22:41 config-2.6.9-100.EL drwxr-xr-x 2 root root

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-09 Thread Todd Cary
And here are the contents of grub.conf: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-09 Thread compdoc
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Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-09 Thread Les Mikesell
On 3/9/2011 12:35 PM, Todd Cary wrote: Simon - I performed the tasks as outlined and here are the contents of /boot: It might be a good time to review what you can do with an install disk after booting with linux rescue at the prompt. If you've made a mistake in the setup you can get back

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-09 Thread Simon Matter
And here are the contents of grub.conf: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. #

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-09 Thread Todd Cary
Unfortunately, I live out with the cows, so I am using DSL to download the latest - it will take awhile. It has been awhile since I downloaded the four disks, however I assume disk 1 contains all that I need to do a rescue. Once I get that down, I will use torrent to get all four disks. Hey,

[CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-08 Thread Todd Cary
I started a new thread since the original one is getting rather long. I have retrieved the files I deleted in /boot and /boot/grub, however I need to make links for /boot/System.map (System.map - System.map-2.6.9-89.35.1) /boot/vmlinuz (vmlinuz - vmlinuz-2.6.9-89.35.1) /boot/grub/menu.lst

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-08 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Todd Cary t...@aristesoftware.com wrote: I started a new thread since the original one is getting rather long. I have retrieved the files I deleted in /boot and /boot/grub, however I need to make links for /boot/System.map  (System.map -

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-08 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 12:40 AM, Todd Cary t...@aristesoftware.com wrote: My current kernel is vmlinuz-2.6.9-89.35.1 per grub.conf: #boot=/dev/hdc default=1 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS (2.6.9-100.EL)    root (hd0,0)    kernel

Re: [CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

2011-03-08 Thread Todd Cary
I inadvertently missed using the list...here are my recent messages. On 3/8/2011 8:39 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Todd Caryt...@aristesoftware.com wrote: reinstall is not an option for yum. I ran yum install kernel and it completed without errors however