At some point, your RPM database was screwed, right? Why don't you see if those three kernels are really installed:
[root@mavis ~]# ls -l /boot | grep vmlinuz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1435513 Jun 8 17:39 vmlinuz-2.6.9-11.EL -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1401894 Jun 8 18:33 vmlinuz-2.6.9-11.ELsmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1433883 Feb 19 19:18 vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1400375 Feb 19 20:30 vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.0.3.ELsmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1434068 Apr 19 18:09 vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.0.5.EL -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1400547 Apr 19 18:35 vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.0.5.ELsmp [root@mavis ~]#
According to your query below, you should have the three files above that DO NOT end with "smp" and you should be able to boot any of the three. (Which you indicated earlier didn't work.) Based on the indications you're giving, that RPM data is still out of touch with reality.
David Campbell wrote:
OK I did the rpm -q --qf '[%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n]' kernel
and got the following
kernel-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL.i686 kernel-2.6.9-5.0.5.EL.i686 kernel-2.6.9-11.EL.i686
Thanks Dave
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of David Campbell Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 7:13 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] RE:tryingtoupgradefromCentos4.0tocurrent--repairRPMdatabase
Hey, Johnny, I have a newbie question for you... not that the previous stuff isn't but what is the difference between a regular kernel and an smb kernel?
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of David Campbell Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 7:01 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] RE: tryingtoupgradefromCentos4.0tocurrent--repairRPMdatabase
wow... that was scary.. I did the edit, verified that I had no typos. save and rebooted... said "file not found". So had to manually type the load sequence in at command line to get the server back up... will verify the installed kernels now...
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 6:40 AM To: CentOS ML Subject: RE: [CentOS] RE: trying toupgradefromCentos4.0tocurrent--repairRPMdatabase
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 06:29 -0400, David Campbell wrote:
Ok, thanks.. is there a way I can tell for sure which kernels I have installed. I have tried rpm -i and the 686 kernel name and it says already installed.. tried it with the 586 also and got same results... also tried rpm -e for each and it said "not installed" though I did the rpm -i again and it said it was, so I found it strange.
Thanks
Dave
Use the following commands to see the arches of your installed kernels:
rpm -q --qf '[%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n]' kernel
and
rpm -q --qf '[%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n]' kernel-devel
(you would substitute kernel-smp and kernel-smp-devel if you had an smp kernel installed)
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of Johnny Hughes Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 6:22 AM To: CentOS ML Subject: RE: [CentOS] RE: trying to upgradefromCentos4.0tocurrent--repairRPMdatabase
On Sun, 2005-08-21 at 05:59 -0400, David Campbell wrote:
Here is what grub.conf says..
# 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 (hd0,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS 4.0 (2.6.9-5.0.3.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
rhgb
quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL.img ~
Thanks
Dave
Dave, You need the i686 kernel and not the i586 kernel.
Make your grub.conf look like this (leave all the remarked stuff, that begins with #, alone) :
default=1 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title CentOS 4.0 (2.6.9-5.0.3.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
rhgb
quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL.img
title CentOS 4 (2.6.9-11.EL) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-11.EL ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.9-11.EL.img
#-----------------------------------------------
If, for some reason the new kernel doesn't boot, shift to default=0 in grub.conf.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org]On Behalf Of Craig White Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 12:12 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: RE: [CentOS] RE: trying to upgrade fromCentos4.0tocurrent--repairRPMdatabase
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 20:21 -0400, David Campbell wrote:
Output is as follows
kernel-2.6.9-11.EL kernel-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL kernel-2.6.9-5.0.5.EL kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.66 kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.48
The only available kernel that shows in the boot is the 2.6.9-5.0.3EL
why not 'cat /boot/grub/grub.conf' and 'ls -l /boot' and we'll give you the changes to make to /boot/grub/grub.conf
Craig
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