On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch> wrote: >> 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 I had to do was remove some of the outdated kernel files.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 > > Wouldn't it have been easier to reinstall the kernel & grub, i.e.: yum reinstall kernel grub Surely if yum reinstalls it, it would re-create the permissions & symlinks as well? I haven't done, or tried this before, but it might work? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532