Am Do, den 16.06.2005 schrieb Mário Gamito um 2:53: > I have this file server with CentOS 4.0 > Each time a new kernel comes out, i have to recompile it, becuse i need > Appletalk support and the kernel doesn't have it. > > I've done this before many times and in other servers, and all went well. > > Now, in this particular server, with the new 2.6.9-11, after i've > recompiled it, created the .img and edited grub, the machine doesn't > start at all. > It says it can't find the kernel image. I would guess you somehow did a mistake editing /etc/grub.conf which is a symlink to /boot/grub/menu.lst. > I cannot even boot with older kernels. > > To worsten things, i have LVM, so "linux rescue" tells me there's no > Linux installation in the server and leaves me with a prompt. The rescue mode is aware of LVM2 and can mount that. > Now, i can mount /boot because it is outside the LVM, but when i do it, > i lost access to any command, even a mere ls. > > Tried to pre-copy vi before the /boot mount and could access > /boot/grub/menu.lst > > Everything seems fine, the files are all in /boot ...!!! > > Do i need to run grub command after editing menu.lst ? No. This is one difference to lilo. It may be helpful if you show us your menu.lst / grub.conf. > Never did that. > And why can't i boot from older kernels ? I can only imagine that the menu.lst is broken somehow (strange characters in it). > Now, the really nasty thing: somehow, i don't have the smallest hint, i > had a 500 GB external USB disk to make the backups, and the "linux > rescue" erased it :( :( :( What do you mean with "erased"? You plugged the drive in on a different host and the drive is completely empty? > Mário Gamito Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.27_FC2smp Serendipity 03:20:47 up 23 days, 1:58, load average: 0.10, 0.25, 0.25 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20050616/4a429160/attachment-0005.sig>