yum gives me no updates
the only thing yum is not allowed to do is update my kernel, cause than
it stops during the boot sequence
(caused my PHP5 installation to fail once the latest PHP4 was
auto-installed <sigh>
Installed Packages
grub.i386 0.95-3.8 installed
Dennis
Rickard Osser schreef:
> Hi Dennis,
>
> I installed a virtual machine with 2 ide-disks and choose option 22
> (raid-mirror with grub on IDE). The script runs flawlessly there.
>
> >From seeing your grub-file I'm not sure why it's not working on your
> machine. It should... Could you check if there's any updates for grub
> that you haven't installed?
>
> regards,
>
> Rickard
>
> On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 20:43 +0200, Rickard Osser wrote:
>
>> Hi Dennis,
>>
>> sorry about the /dev/mdstat (I was in a hurry).
>>
>> Hmm, the script should work....
>>
>> There's something fishy about your md0 and hda1/hdc1. According to all
>> logic hda1 should be (hd0,0)...
>>
>> Ok, I've got 1 machine running with 2 disks (raid1 using libata) and 1
>> with 4 disks, also running with libata. I haven't tried using ide for
>> raid.
>>
>> I'll have to install 1 machine and try it out.
>> I'll get back to you.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Rickard
>>
>> On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 16:53 +0200, Dennis wrote:
>>
>>> cat /dev/mdstat does not work
>>> this works:
>>> [root@wb boot]# cat /proc/mdstat
>>> Personalities : [raid1]
>>> md1 : active raid1 hdc2[1] hda2[0]
>>> 6289344 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>>>
>>> md2 : active raid1 hdc3[1] hda3[0]
>>> 1052160 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>>>
>>> md3 : active raid1 hdc5[1] hda5[0]
>>> 191695488 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>>>
>>> md0 : active raid1 hdc1[1] hda1[0]
>>> 104320 blocks [2/2] [UU]
>>>
>>> unused devices: <none>
>>>
>>> cat /etc/fstab
>>> # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
>>> /dev/md1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
>>> /dev/md0 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
>>> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
>>> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
>>> /dev/md3 /home ext3
>>> defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 2
>>> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
>>> none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
>>> /dev/md2 swap swap defaults 0 0
>>> /dev/hdd /media/cdrom auto
>>> pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Rickard Osser schreef:
>>>
>>>> Hi Dennis,
>>>>
>>>> can you do the following:
>>>>
>>>> # cat /dev/mdstat
>>>> and
>>>> # cat /etc/fstab
>>>>
>>>> and post the results.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>> Rickard
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 16:19 +0200, Dennis wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> In the past I encountered similar issues as Taco and the solution for me
>>>>> was same as Taco is describing
>>>>>
>>>>> now found your script (I had holiday, so I skipped a lot of messages)
>>>>> and tried it
>>>>>
>>>>> I can start the script .. and when stopping it .. i get errors ..
>>>>>
>>>>> [root (at mark) wb tmp]# ./fix_grub stop
>>>>> Rebuilding grub:
>>>>> Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
>>>>>
>>>>> [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
>>>>> lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
>>>>> completions of a device/filename.]
>>>>> grub> root (hd0,0)
>>>>> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd
>>>>> grub> setup (hd0)
>>>>> Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
>>>>> Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no
>>>>>
>>>>> Error 15: File not found
>>>>> grub> root (hd1,0)
>>>>> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd
>>>>> grub> setup (hd1)
>>>>> Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
>>>>> Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no
>>>>>
>>>>> Error 15: File not found
>>>>> grub> quit
>>>>>
>>>>> where:
>>>>> boot gives me
>>>>> [root@wb boot]# ls -l
>>>>> total 2728
>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Sep 18 2005 boot.0300
>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Sep 18 2005 boot.1600
>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5824 Feb 21 2005 boot.b
>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 612 Feb 21 2005 chain.b
>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48513 Jan 17 2006 config-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
>>>>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 19 2007 grub
>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 405320 Jan 23 2006 initrd-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL.img
>>>>> drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Sep 18 2005 lost+found
>>>>> -rw------- 1 root root 23040 Jun 30 19:31 map.0301
>>>>> -rw------- 1 root root 43520 Sep 28 2006 map.1601
>>>>> -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 640 Feb 21 2005 os2_d.b
>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 731295 Jan 17 2006 System.map-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1469597 Jan 17 2006 vmlinuz-2.6.9-22.0.2.EL
>>>>>
>>>>> and grub
>>>>> [root@wb boot]# cd grub/
>>>>> [root@wb grub]# ls -l
>>>>> total 8
>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 82 Sep 18 2005 device.map
>>>>> -rw------- 1 root root 566 Jun 19 2007 grub.conf
>>>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Sep 18 2005 menu.lst -> ./grub.conf
>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3605 Aug 13 2006 splash.xpm.gz
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe it's helpful ..
>>>>>
>>>>> Rickard Osser schreef:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Taco,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> do you use software raid on that machine?
>>>>>> If so I've created a script that rewrites the grub correctly on every
>>>>>> shutdown that I posted on the list about a month ago.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The problem is that mkinitrd and grub on centos4/rhel4 doesn't really
>>>>>> support /boot running with raid1. This means problems everytime there is
>>>>>> a kernel upgrade. I think it's fixed on centos5/rhel5.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hisao said he would incorporate the script in and update.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Rickard
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 15:53 +0200, Taco Scargo wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Recently one of my many BQ machines did not startup after a reboot (when a
>>>>>>> new kernel was installed).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> After investigation it seemed as if Grub was not started.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I booted up with the Nuonce CD in rescue mode and reinstalled grub again.
>>>>>>> After the reboot, now grub started, but in the grub command prompt mode.
>>>>>>> When issuing the "configfile /grub/grub.conf" command, the config was loaded
>>>>>>> and the boot was succesfull.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> When rebooting again, grub did not start anymore.
>>>>>>> Lilo is not installed, so that is not the problem.
>>>>>>> I have never had this kind of problem, and I have tried a lot to fix this.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If someone ever had a similar problem and was able to fix it, please let me
>>>>>>> know.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Taco
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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