> Yes...thank you for the suggestion...since that was the cause of > my problem in the first place!! I should have known better; all > I had to do was remove some of the outdated kernel files. And > when I did the dumb thing of deleting the /boot files, they were > moved into the "protected" .Trash-boot directory. OK, now let us know exactly what you have. Is it CentOS 4 as I expected? If so, the listing of files in /boot should look like so: [root at abc ~]# ls -laR /boot/ /boot/: total 3771 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Mar 3 11:31 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Mar 3 11:37 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51676 Feb 18 07:41 config-2.6.9-100.EL drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Mar 3 11:31 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1364958 Mar 3 11:20 initrd-2.6.9-100.EL.img drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Jul 8 2005 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9371 Aug 13 2006 message -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9371 Aug 13 2006 message.ja -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67797 Feb 18 07:41 symvers-2.6.9-100.EL.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 770652 Feb 18 07:41 System.map-2.6.9-100.EL -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1538264 Feb 18 07:41 vmlinuz-2.6.9-100.EL /boot/grub: total 198 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Mar 3 11:31 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Mar 3 11:31 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 Aug 9 2005 device.map -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7956 Aug 9 2005 e2fs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7684 Aug 9 2005 fat_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6996 Aug 9 2005 ffs_stage1_5 -rw------- 1 root root 589 Mar 3 11:31 grub.conf -rw------- 1 root root 593 Aug 9 2005 grub.conf.orig -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7028 Aug 9 2005 iso9660_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8448 Aug 9 2005 jfs_stage1_5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Aug 9 2005 menu.lst -> ./grub.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7188 Aug 9 2005 minix_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9396 Aug 9 2005 reiserfs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3605 Aug 13 2006 splash.xpm.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Aug 9 2005 stage1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103816 Aug 9 2005 stage2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7272 Aug 9 2005 ufs2_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6612 Aug 9 2005 vstafs_stage1_5 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9308 Aug 9 2005 xfs_stage1_5 /boot/lost+found: total 14 drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Jul 8 2005 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Mar 3 11:31 .. 1) I don't know which tool you have used to move things to "Trash" but you should be aware that it may well be the case that some permissions and or file types like symlinks may not be correct after recovering from "Trash". 2) The directory "lost+found" can be recreated using the command 'mklost+found' 3) I'm not sure on how to make grub work again, but maybe some steps qre required after copying everything back to /boot. I hope someone else can give you better info about this. Simon > > > Todd > > On 3/8/2011 5:51 PM, compdoc wrote: >> Besides recovering the files, you'll need to delete some of them to free >> up >> space. >> >> Here's an idea of how to go about it: >> >> http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19788 >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> > > -- > Ariste Software > Petaluma, CA 94952 > > http://www.aristesoftware.com > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >