[NBLUG/talk] Need help with booting Linux system

William Tracy afishionado at gmail.com
Thu Mar 17 21:51:12 PDT 2011 

Are you saying that you already tried to repair it with  package-cleanup,
and that didn't work for you?

I probably can't help you beyond what I've already suggested--again, I'm a
lot more familiar with Debian than CentOS.


William Tracy
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com> wrote:

> Bill -
>
> Though I have run the following command with the results in parts of this
> message .  Do you think it would be advantageous to run your suggested rpm
> command?
>
> Todd
>
>
>
>
> On 3/17/2011 5:44 PM, William Tracy wrote:
>
>> A different possible approach: Supposedly this command will forcibly
>> reinstall a package from an rpm file, replacing any accidentally deleted
>> files:
>>
>> rpm -U --force <package.rpm>
>>
>> I found a forum post that suggests that the "yum-utils" package includes a
>> "package-cleanup" command that will do this without making you manually
>> track down the rpm files.
>>
>> YMMV; I'm more of a Debian guy. I happen to have a Red Hat system here at
>> work where I can pull up man pages, but I don't have root access to test
>> anything out (or install yum-utils).
>>
>>
>> William Tracy
>> Work: wtracy at cisco.com <mailto:wtracy at cisco.com>
>> Play: afishionado at gmail.com <mailto:afishionado at gmail.com>
>>
>> Cell phone: <%28805%29%20704-0917>(805) 704-0917
>> Internet phone: <%28707%29%20206-6441>(707) 206-6441
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Todd Cary <todd at aristesoftware.com<mailto:
>> todd at aristesoftware.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    Scott -
>>
>>    Again thank you for the assistance, and my delays in
>>    getting back is due to being "in the field" frequently.
>>
>>    I can afford to have the server down for a period of time
>>    since it is mainly for FTP, testing PHP and displaying
>>    images for clients.
>>
>>    Do I include the EL in the symbolic link as in
>>    vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.9-100.EL
>>
>>    Todd
>>
>>    # grub.conf generated by anaconda
>>    #
>>    # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making
>>    changes to this file
>>    # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
>>    #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to
>>    /boot/, eg.
>>    #          root (hd0,0)
>>    #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro
>>    root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>>    #          initrd /initrd-version.img
>>    #boot=/dev/hdc
>>    default=0
>>    timeout=5
>>    splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>>    hiddenmenu
>>    title CentOS (2.6.9-100.EL)
>>       root (hd0,0)
>>       kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-100.EL ro
>>    root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
>>       initrd /initrd-2.6.9-100.EL.img
>>
>>    Todd
>>
>>
>>    On 3/17/2011 12:01 AM, Scott Doty wrote:
>>
>>        On 03/16/2011 04:58 PM, Todd Cary wrote:
>>
>>            Scott -
>>
>>            Yup...I was not paying attention to the link syntax
>>            - I do know better :-).
>>
>>            On the advice of others in the Centos forum, I did
>>            the following:
>>
>>            rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs --replacefiles
>>            kernel-2.6.9-100.EL.i686.rpm
>>            redhat-logos-1.1.26-1.centos4.4.noarch.rpm
>>            grub-0.95-3.8.i386.rpm
>>
>>            So now I have the following in the /boot/ directory:
>>
>>            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
>>
>>            I am not sure of what to have the symbolic link for
>>            vmlinuz point to; vmlinuz-2.6.9-100???
>>
>>
>>        That looks correct.  but check grub.conf to make sure
>>        the kernel file you're trying to boot is the correct one.
>>
>>        Also, remember that it will look a little funny, if you
>>        have a separate /boot partition -- the filenames will
>>        be in the "root" directory, like this:
>>
>>        title Fedora (2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64)
>>           root (hd0,0)
>>           kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64 ro
>>        root=UUID=69effc7d-ef6e-4982-9bdc-2f3bea9e056e rhgb
>>        quiet SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>        KEYTABLE=us selinux=0
>>           initrd /initramfs-2.6.35.10-74.fc14.x86_64.img
>>
>>        It's the kernel line I'm referring to, it will be
>>        "/vmlinuz-..." instead of "/boot/vmlinuz-..." -- but
>>        _only_ if /boot is a separate partition.
>>
>>        Quick question -- if it _doesn't_ boot, can you afford
>>        for this system to be down until it can be fixed?
>>
>>         -Scott
>>
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