Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.5 system doesn't boot after installing latest updates

2007-09-25 Thread Alfred von Campe
Anyways, my suggestion is to check all the drives in your system for said files as mentioned. If they are there, but not where grub is looking for you may have to make changes. My system started its life with one drive and CentOS 4.3, and has been "yum updated" and is now at CentOS 4.5. I

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.5 system doesn't boot after installing latest updates

2007-09-25 Thread James A. Peltier
Phil Schaffner wrote: I have seen this behavior before when the BIOS device order does not match what is seen by the running system. Seems that in such cases, running GRUB from the boot media also sees different device/controller ordering than the running system and can lead to GRUB being conf

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.5 system doesn't boot after installing latest updates

2007-09-25 Thread Phil Schaffner
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:08 +0930, Michael Kratz wrote: > On 25/09/2007, at 6:41 AM, Scott Silva wrote: > > > Alfred von Campe spake the following on 9/24/2007 1:59 PM: > >>> Today I decided to install all the latest updates (including the > >>> -06 kernel). The "yum update" seems to have run j

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.5 system doesn't boot after installing latest updates

2007-09-25 Thread Alfred von Campe
Out of interest, is this something that is always required when upgrading Grub? i.e. should one always manually run "grub-install" /dev/XXX" after doing so? No, it shouldn't. But in my case, I didn't "upgrade grub". I simply did a "yum update" which installed, among other things, a new

Re: [CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.5 system doesn't boot after installing latest updates

2007-09-24 Thread Michael Kratz
On 25/09/2007, at 6:41 AM, Scott Silva wrote: Alfred von Campe spake the following on 9/24/2007 1:59 PM: Today I decided to install all the latest updates (including the -06 kernel). The "yum update" seems to have run just fine (no errors), but when I rebooted the system it just sits there

[CentOS] Re: CentOS 4.5 system doesn't boot after installing latest updates

2007-09-24 Thread Scott Silva
Alfred von Campe spake the following on 9/24/2007 1:59 PM: Today I decided to install all the latest updates (including the -06 kernel). The "yum update" seems to have run just fine (no errors), but when I rebooted the system it just sits there with the word "GRUB" in the upper left hand corne