On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 16:16 -0500, Robert wrote: > William L. Maltby wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 21:31 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > > <snip> > > > > Well, JIC, make sure yoyr /boot/grub entries look like this. > > > > ls -l /boot/grub/[gm]* > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 9 2008 /boot/grub/grub.conf -> > > menu.lst > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1108 Apr 2 21:33 /boot/grub/menu.lst > > > > I'm not sure why it's set this way, probably some historical reason. > > > > I only mention because I don't even know which the update process > > affects. If they aren't linked, I guess that might cause a problem. > > > I have long been amazed at that relationship. Mine is not the same as > yours. (CentOS 5.3 totally updated) Ditto here. > > [root at mavis download]# ls -l /boot/grub/[gm]* /etc/grub.conf > -rw------- 1 root root 2378 Apr 2 15:07 /boot/grub/grub.conf > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Aug 7 2008 /boot/grub/menu.lst -> > ./grub.conf > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Aug 7 2008 /etc/grub.conf -> > ../boot/grub/grub.conf > [root at mavis download]# > > So, while menu.lst is the real file and grub.conf is a symlink to it > on your system, the opposite is true on mine. I have no idea how that > happened. I do know that when I do a manual edit, I don't go through a > "who's on first" routine. I just edit one of them and move on to the > next windmill. Two things. Probably doesn't make any difference, but we never should assume. AFAIK, my 5.3 is completely "box stock" in this area, and probably 98% of others too. I have no /etc/grub*. $ ls -l /etc/grub* ls: /etc/grub*: No such file or directory I also checked my 4.6 Centos. It has the /boot/grub[mg]* relationship reversed (menu.lst->grub.conf). I presume that's OK for 4.x as it is also "as delivered" AFAIK. It *does* have an /etc/grub.conf->../boot/grub/grub.conf So I'm guessing your is left over from an update from 4.x->5.x? But again, I don't have any information that this would affect anything. I thought they would be worth mentioning only because mine has upgraded trouble-free (one exception back when sqllite(?) needed to be upgraded before the normal one) from 5.0->5.3. I did do the glibc thing first, which should not have an effect on this I guess. Since *lots* of other folks have also upgraded w/NP, one makes a first assumption that something must be slightly different on your node. > <snip sig stuff> HTH -- Bill