[NBLUG/talk] Need help with booting Linux system
Todd Cary
todd at aristesoftware.com
Wed Mar 16 15:41:30 PDT 2011
Scott -
Thank you for the assistance. While in the /boot/grub/ directory
and I enter
# ls -l menu.lst grub.conf
The symbolic link is not produced. Could this be because
menu.lst already exists in the directory?
Todd
On 3/16/2011 3:26 PM, Scott Doty wrote:
> On 03/16/2011 03:18 PM, Todd Cary wrote:
>> Here is what I have in my boot partition currently. Does
>> anything seem out of place?
>>
>
> Yes -- on CentOS and Fedora, grub's menu.lst is a symlink to
> grub.conf in /boot/grub/ .
>
> I would save a copy of both of those files, dig out the grub
> entries you want to keep for a new grub.conf. Here's what it
> looks like on that CentOS 5.5 system from earlier:
>
> (in /boot/grub )
> # ls -l menu.lst grub.conf
> -rw------- 1 root root 1567 Mar 16 11:20 grub.conf
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jul 7 2010 menu.lst -> ./grub.conf
>
> If you want folks to check the resulting grub.conf, just send
> it to the list. :)
>
> -Scott
>
>> Todd
>>
>> /boot/:
>> total 25121
>> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 9216 Mar 9 10:31 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jan 24 08:34 ..
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51676 Feb 17 22:41
>> config-2.6.9-100.EL
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Mar 9 10:31 grub
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 444812 May 5 2007
>> grub-0.95-3.8.i386.rpm
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1343054 Mar 9 10:29
>> initrd-2.6.9-100.EL.img
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13409764 Feb 18 06:25
>> kernel-2.6.9-100.EL.i686.rpm
>> drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Jan 12 2007 lost+found
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9371 Aug 12 2006 message
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9371 Aug 12 2006 message.ja
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7919724 Aug 13 2006
>> redhat-logos-1.1.26-1.centos4.4.noarch.rpm
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67797 Feb 17 22:41
>> symvers-2.6.9-100.EL.gz
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 770652 Feb 17 22:41
>> System.map-2.6.9-100.EL
>> drwx------ 2 root root 9216 Mar 9 10:03 .Trash-root
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1538264 Feb 17 22:41
>> vmlinuz-2.6.9-100.EL
>>
>> /boot/grub:
>> total 345
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Mar 9 10:31 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 9216 Mar 9 10:31 ..
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 Mar 8 17:39 device.map
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7956 Mar 8 17:40 e2fs_stage1_5
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7684 Mar 8 17:40 fat_stage1_5
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6996 Mar 8 17:40 ffs_stage1_5
>> -rw------- 1 root root 599 Mar 9 10:31 grub.conf
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7028 Mar 8 17:40 iso9660_stage1_5
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8448 Mar 8 17:40 jfs_stage1_5
>> -rw------- 1 root root 4240 Mar 8 20:24 menu.lst
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7188 Mar 8 17:40 minix_stage1_5
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9396 Mar 8 17:40 reiserfs_stage1_5
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3605 Aug 12 2006 splash.xpm.gz
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Mar 8 17:45 stage1
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103688 Mar 8 17:45 stage2
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67701 Mar 8 18:30
>> symvers-2.6.9-89.35.1.EL.gz
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68477 Mar 8 18:30
>> symvers-2.6.9-89.35.1.ELsmp.gz
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7272 Mar 8 17:40 ufs2_stage1_5
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6612 Mar 8 17:40 vstafs_stage1_5
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9308 Mar 8 17:40 xfs_stage1_5
>>
>> /boot/lost+found:
>> total 22
>> drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Jan 12 2007 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 9216 Mar 9 10:31 ..
>>
>> /boot/.Trash-root:
>> total 19
>> drwx------ 2 root root 9216 Mar 9 10:03 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 9216 Mar 9 10:31 ..
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 3/16/2011 10:08 AM, Todd Cary wrote:
>>> I did what probably rates as the dumbest thing possible with
>>> my Linux server (Centos 4): deleted the boot files. However,
>>> I caught the error *before* doing a reboot and found many (I
>>> hope all) of the files, but due to my limited Linux admin
>>> experience, I have concern about rebooting without having
>>> someone with more expertise than I have to be present at that
>>> moment.
>>>
>>> I downloaded the latest version of Centos 4.8 and have it on
>>> disks, so the repair program is present. This server is
>>> quite simple: just use it to share images, test php
>>> applications and to ftp work to others. For this reason, it
>>> only gets touched by me to back up data (unfortunately, not
>>> the system) and to do yum updates. As a result, I do not
>>> have occasion to use Linux often enough to keep my skill set up.
>>>
>>> For being here to help with the reboot, I am willing to pay
>>> someone...
>>>
>>> Todd
>>>
>>> Petaluma, CA
>>>
>>
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