[CentOS] Creating the symbolic links in the /boot and /boot/grub/

Wed Mar 9 06:03:13 UTC 2011
Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com>

I inadvertently missed using the list...here are my recent messages.


On 3/8/2011 8:39 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Todd Cary<todd at aristesoftware.com>  wrote:
>> reinstall is not an option for yum.  I ran "yum install kernel" and it
>> completed without errors however there are no links created.
> Oh, dear. Can you grab the RPM and do "rpm -U -replacepkgs
> [kernel-whatver].rpm"? You should be able to use "yum remove" on the
> old kernel packages, consistent with freeing up the space, and now
> install your new kernel with yum.
>
>> Would this be the correct ln command for vmlinuz-2.6.9-89.35.1
>>
>> # /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-89.35.1 /boot/vmlinuz
>>
>> Todd
>>
>> On 3/8/2011 7:04 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Todd Cary<todd at aristesoftware.com>    wrote:
>>>> I started a new thread since the original one is getting rather long.
>>>>
>>>> I have retrieved the files I deleted in /boot and /boot/grub,
>>>> however I need to make links for
>>>>
>>>> /boot/System.map  (System.map ->    System.map-2.6.9-89.35.1)
>>>> /boot/vmlinuz  (vmlinuz ->    vmlinuz-2.6.9-89.35.1)
>>>> /boot/grub/menu.lst (menu.lst ->    ./grub.conf)
>>> Instead, re-install your kernel. "yum reinstall kernel". This should
>>> regenerate your symlinks correctly, except possibly the grub.conf.
>>>
>>>> If it was not so important to get it correct, I would appreciate
>>>> the syntax for the command.  Usually I would figure it out.
>>>>
>>>> Since I have restored the files (I will double check to make sure
>>>> they are all there), do I need to run grub-install?
>>> i think yes. The old location of the boot loader is listed in
>>> /boot/grub/grub.conf, and should be used as the argument to that
>>> command. grub is much smarter than LILO used to be, but I think the
>>> bootstrap procedure relies on knowing details of where the fiddly bits
>>> of grub live on the relevant ex2 compatible filesytem.
>>>
>>>> My apologies for bothering everyone with such a dumb error on my
>>>> part.
>>>>
>>>> Todd
>>>>
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