On 4/9/2015 4:57 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 4/9/2015 2:44 PM, Chuck Campbell wrote: >> >> I don't think this made it to the list yesterday. At least I never >> saw it show up. > > it showed up here. dunno what to suggest. > > maybe install 5.11 on a VM somewhere with the same package set and > architecture (on the blown system, /var/log/rpmpkgs, then copy > everything in /bin ? boot the target system with a rescue OS, mount > your OS root as /mnt or something, and copy that backup to /mnt/bin ? > > > this won't be perfect unless you know exactly what RPMs were installed > on the blown system, but its probably better than nothing. > > I dunno. I think I'd install a new box with 6 or 7, and migrate over > whatever app stuff you need. > > I'll try running the install again. I did this exact same thing a year ago, and all worked fine. The only difference was that I didn't partition the disk this time, and I preserved one partition's data. I'll back it up and just go the whole route with a format and partition in the installer and see if it works. It is strange that it finds the /boot partition to get the gtub.conf, but can't see the initrd and vmlinuz files there... -chuck