> 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 I had to do was remove some of the outdated kernel files.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? Yes, only that reinstall doesn't exist in EL4 :) Simon