On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 16:16 -0500, Robert wrote:
William L. Maltby wrote:
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 21:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
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Well, JIC, make sure yoyr /boot/grub entries look like this.
ls -l /boot/grub/[gm]* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 9 2008 /boot/grub/grub.conf -> menu.lst -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1108 Apr 2 21:33 /boot/grub/menu.lst
I'm not sure why it's set this way, probably some historical reason.
I only mention because I don't even know which the update process affects. If they aren't linked, I guess that might cause a problem.
I have long been amazed at that relationship. Mine is not the same as yours. (CentOS 5.3 totally updated)
Ditto here.
[root@mavis download]# ls -l /boot/grub/[gm]* /etc/grub.conf -rw------- 1 root root 2378 Apr 2 15:07 /boot/grub/grub.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Aug 7 2008 /boot/grub/menu.lst -> ./grub.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Aug 7 2008 /etc/grub.conf -> ../boot/grub/grub.conf [root@mavis download]#So, while menu.lst is the real file and grub.conf is a symlink to it on your system, the opposite is true on mine. I have no idea how that happened. I do know that when I do a manual edit, I don't go through a "who's on first" routine. I just edit one of them and move on to the next windmill.
Two things. Probably doesn't make any difference, but we never should assume.
AFAIK, my 5.3 is completely "box stock" in this area, and probably 98% of others too. I have no /etc/grub*.
$ ls -l /etc/grub* ls: /etc/grub*: No such file or directory
I also checked my 4.6 Centos. It has the /boot/grub[mg]* relationship reversed (menu.lst->grub.conf). I presume that's OK for 4.x as it is also "as delivered" AFAIK.
It *does* have an /etc/grub.conf->../boot/grub/grub.conf
So I'm guessing your is left over from an update from 4.x->5.x? But again, I don't have any information that this would affect anything.
I thought they would be worth mentioning only because mine has upgraded trouble-free (one exception back when sqllite(?) needed to be upgraded before the normal one) from 5.0->5.3. I did do the glibc thing first, which should not have an effect on this I guess.
Since *lots* of other folks have also upgraded w/NP, one makes a first assumption that something must be slightly different on your node.
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HTH