On 5/8/08, Kai Schaetzl <maillists AT conactive DOT com> wrote: <snip> > hda3 and hda9 are your Linux LVM partitions, maybe they belong to one volume > group, I don't know (your fstab would tell more, there's also a graphical > frontend for LVM in your desktop). > > >From your grub.conf we know that it thinks it's installed on (hd0,2), but > hd0,2 is hda3 (if I understa nd that correctly) and that is LVM, and grub > can't > boot from LVM because grub boots the kernel and only that knows about >LVM. > So, > you are probably booting from hda8, but it's not in your fstab as >the /boot > partition. > What does a "df" say? Does it list hda8 among the partitions? Probably not? [root at compaq1300 ~]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 10696956 4597688 5547128 46% / /dev/hda3 102486 22174 75020 23% /boot tmpfs 257260 0 257260 0% /dev/shm [root at compaq1300 ~]# > Mount it and have a look at that partition, does it contain the same stuff > as > your /boot partition? If not mounted, do: > mkdir /mnt/hda8 > mount /dev/hda8 /mnt/hda8 > cat /mnt/hda8/boot/grub/grub.conf > Does this look like the grub.conf that is the *real* one booting your > system? [root at compaq1300 ~]# mkdir /mnt/hda8 [root at compaq1300 ~]# mount /dev/hda8 /mnt/hda8 [root at compaq1300 ~]# cat /mnt/hda8/boot/grub/grub.conf cat: /mnt/hda8/boot/grub/grub.conf: No such file or directory [root at compaq1300 ~]# Kai: Before I got the above data this morning, I let PUP download/install the latest kernel (2.6.18-53.1.19.el5.i686) but after rebooting, it comes up with the original kernel that is on the CentOS 5 Install DVD I used last November. Not surprising that it does not boot this newest kernel. The download/install seemed to go perfectly, so the "Subject" changed from yum not updating the kernel to where is the proper boot file.... When it boots Linux, CentOS gives a message something like booting root (hd 0, 7). TIA, Lanny