[CentOS] RE: trying toupgradefromCentos4.0tocurrent--repairRPMdatabase

Sun Aug 21 11:01:16 UTC 2005
David Campbell <decampbell1 at comcast.net>

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