On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Simon Matter simon.matter@invoca.ch wrote:

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Yes...thank you for the suggestion...since that was the cause of my problem in the first place!!  I should have known better; all I had to do was remove some of the outdated kernel files.  And when I did the dumb thing of deleting the /boot files, they were moved into the "protected" .Trash-boot directory.

OK, now let us know exactly what you have. Is it CentOS 4 as I expected? If so, the listing of files in /boot should look like so:

[root@abc ~]# ls -laR /boot/ /boot/: total 3771 drwxr-xr-x   4 root root    1024 Mar  3 11:31 . drwxr-xr-x  24 root root    4096 Mar  3 11:37 .. -rw-r--r--   1 root root   51676 Feb 18 07:41 config-2.6.9-100.EL drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    1024 Mar  3 11:31 grub -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1364958 Mar  3 11:20 initrd-2.6.9-100.EL.img drwx------   2 root root   12288 Jul  8  2005 lost+found -rw-r--r--   1 root root    9371 Aug 13  2006 message -rw-r--r--   1 root root    9371 Aug 13  2006 message.ja -rw-r--r--   1 root root   67797 Feb 18 07:41 symvers-2.6.9-100.EL.gz -rw-r--r--   1 root root  770652 Feb 18 07:41 System.map-2.6.9-100.EL -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1538264 Feb 18 07:41 vmlinuz-2.6.9-100.EL

/boot/grub: total 198 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   1024 Mar  3 11:31 . drwxr-xr-x  4 root root   1024 Mar  3 11:31 .. -rw-r--r--  1 root root     82 Aug  9  2005 device.map -rw-r--r--  1 root root   7956 Aug  9  2005 e2fs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r--  1 root root   7684 Aug  9  2005 fat_stage1_5 -rw-r--r--  1 root root   6996 Aug  9  2005 ffs_stage1_5 -rw-------  1 root root    589 Mar  3 11:31 grub.conf -rw-------  1 root root    593 Aug  9  2005 grub.conf.orig -rw-r--r--  1 root root   7028 Aug  9  2005 iso9660_stage1_5 -rw-r--r--  1 root root   8448 Aug  9  2005 jfs_stage1_5 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     11 Aug  9  2005 menu.lst -> ./grub.conf -rw-r--r--  1 root root   7188 Aug  9  2005 minix_stage1_5 -rw-r--r--  1 root root   9396 Aug  9  2005 reiserfs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r--  1 root root   3605 Aug 13  2006 splash.xpm.gz -rw-r--r--  1 root root    512 Aug  9  2005 stage1 -rw-r--r--  1 root root 103816 Aug  9  2005 stage2 -rw-r--r--  1 root root   7272 Aug  9  2005 ufs2_stage1_5 -rw-r--r--  1 root root   6612 Aug  9  2005 vstafs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r--  1 root root   9308 Aug  9  2005 xfs_stage1_5

/boot/lost+found: total 14 drwx------  2 root root 12288 Jul  8  2005 . drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  1024 Mar  3 11:31 ..

1. I don't know which tool you have used to move things to "Trash" but

you should be aware that it may well be the case that some permissions and or file types like symlinks may not be correct after recovering from "Trash".

2. The directory "lost+found" can be recreated using the command

'mklost+found'

3. I'm not sure on how to make grub work again, but maybe some steps qre

required after copying everything back to /boot. I hope someone else can give you better info about this.

Simon

Wouldn't it have been easier to reinstall the kernel & grub, i.e.:

yum reinstall kernel grub

Surely if yum reinstalls it, it would re-create the permissions & symlinks as well?

Yes, only that reinstall doesn't exist in EL4 :)

Simon