On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, James Bensley wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: James Bensley <jwbensley at gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] ext4? > > On 7 August 2010 19:59, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: >> They are all installed. Are you using RAID by any chance? Your >> grub.conf indicates that is from the second drive. > > /dev/sda1 / (ext3) > /dev/sda2 /storage (the ext4 in question, hardware RAID5 3.4TB) > /dev/sdb1 /boot (ext3) > > It seems like grub and/or yum have gone wrong somewhere over the years > and perhaps downloaded new kernels but not installed them? > > What would be a solution I should seek to achieve, compile them > myself? Or is there a way I can tell my CentOS box "these are here, > look you fool, use them!"? Well that's sort of what I do. If you have space to create a separate boot partition for GRUB, about 20MB should be plenty. You can create it as an ext3 logical partition, inside an extended partition. That should solve the GRUB Centos issue. You then need to reinstall GRUB to that separate boot partition, otherwise GRUB will still be looking to boot from the MBR of the first drive - if that's where it is now. You can install GRUB to separate boot partition by: Create the separate boot partition, and label it something like GrubBoot, using e2label /dev/sd?? GrubBoot. create the mountpoint; /mnt/GrubBoot ================================================================== ** AutoLinuxInstaller Fedora Installation I have created a seperate Grub boot logical partition, in the extended partition, called GrubBoot /dev/sda13. This enables me to do fresh Linux installations into /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2, without destroying the GrubBoot partition. Here's a URL to my partition layout: http://i34.tinypic.com/r9nccz.jpg from grub-install man page: `--root-directory=DIR' Install GRUB images under the directory DIR instead of the root directory. This option is useful when you want to install GRUB into a separate partition or a removable disk. Here is an example in which you have a separate "boot" partition which is mounted on `/boot' (I use /mnt/GrubBoot): The installation of grub to the seperate partition was done by: First mount the GrubBoot partition with: mount -v -t ext3 -L GrubBoot /mnt/GrubBoot then grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/GrubBoot hd0 This was done with F12 as the active OS. Centos 5.5 and F12 will boot now from the GrubBoot partition. I noticed that re-installing GRUB from Centos 5.5 did not allow Fedora 12 to boot. But for some strange reason, when I re-installed GRUB from Fedora 12, this also allowed Centos 5.5 root partition to boot. Here is what my /mnt/GrubBoot/boot/grub/grub.conf file looks like. Note I've added some dummy entries at the end to distinguish where GRUB is booting from: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda1 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda # GRUB Linux # hd0,0 /dev/sda1 1st hard drive,1st partition # hd0,1 /dev/sda2 1st hard drive,2nd partition # hd0,2 /dev/sda3 1st hard drive,3rd partition # GRUB Linux # hd1,0 /dev/sdb1 2nd hard drive,1st partition # hd1,1 /dev/sdb2 2nd hard drive,2nd partition # hd1,2 /dev/sdb3 2nd hard drive,3rd partition # GRUB Linux # hd2,0 /dev/sdc1 3rd hard drive,1st partition # hd2,1 /dev/sdc2 3rd hard drive,2nd partition # hd2,2 /dev/sdc3 3rd hard drive,3rd partition default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,12)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Initial CentOS 5.5 DVD kernel (vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.el5) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.el5 ro root=LABEL=Centos-5-root noapm apm=off ide=nodma initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-194.el5.img title CentOS 5.5 system (vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 ro root=LABEL=Centos-5-root noapm apm=off ide=nodma initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.img title Fedora 12 system (vmlinuz-2.6.32.12-115.fc12.i686.PAE) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32.12-115.fc12.i686.PAE ro root=LABEL=Fedora-12-root noapm apm=off ide=nodma nomodeset initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.32.12-115.fc12.i686.PAE.img title Fedora 12 system (2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686.PAE) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686.PAE ro root=LABEL=Fedora-12-root noapm apm=off ide=nodma nomodeset initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686.PAE.img title Fedora 12 system (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE) root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE ro root=LABEL=Fedora-12-root noapm apm=off ide=nodma nomodeset initrd /boot/initramfs-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE.img title ... root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 ro root=LABEL=Fedora-10-root noapm apm=off ide=nodma initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img title ... root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 ro root=LABEL=Fedora-10-root noapm apm=off ide=nodma initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img title *** (Booting from GrubBoot logical partition /dev/sda13) *** root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686 ro root=LABEL=Fedora-10-root noapm apm=off ide=nodma initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.5-117.fc10.i686.img Sorry for all the noise. Just want to help the guy. Kind Regards, Keith Roberts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.karsites.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------
