[CentOS] RE: trying to upgradefromCentos4.0tocurrent--repairRPMdatabase

[Johnny Hughes]

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 at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at 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 at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at 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
> 

-- Johnny Hughes
< http://www.hughesjr.com/ >

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