Re: How do I install the rescue kernel for fc38?

2023-08-31 Thread Robert McBroom via users
On 8/29/23 07:14, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Fedora 38 My rescue kernel is FC30. How do I install the FC38 rescue kernel? # dnf whatprovides kernel\* | grep -i rescue And my search engine is not helping. Many thanks, -T Saw a while back that all you need to do is delete the

Re: How do I install the rescue kernel for fc38?

2023-08-30 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 12:44 AM Eyal Lebedinsky wrote: > > On 29/08/2023 21.14, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > > > Fedora 38 > > > > My rescue kernel is FC30. > > > > How do I install the FC38 rescue kernel? > > > > # dnf whatprovide

Re: How do I install the rescue kernel for fc38?

2023-08-30 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 8/29/23 20:55, Tim via users wrote: Geoffrey Leach: Put the FC 38 on a thumb drive and boot from there. Lots of useful stuff. ToddAndMargo: That went over my head. :'( I think they're suggesting that if you wanted to rescue a system, it may be beneficial to boot from something else, su

Re: How do I install the rescue kernel for fc38?

2023-08-30 Thread Stephen Morris
On 30/8/23 09:51, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 8/29/23 10:41, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: I've found that removing the rescue files from /boot and then doing a dnf reinstall kernel-core will do it. Did just run it to make sure, paste has wrapping, but hopefully one can follow.

Re: How do I install the rescue kernel for fc38?

2023-08-29 Thread Eyal Lebedinsky
On 29/08/2023 21.14, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Fedora 38 My rescue kernel is FC30. How do I install the FC38 rescue kernel? # dnf whatprovides kernel\* | grep -i rescue And my search engine is not helping. I see (but never used) $ man -k rescue ... grub2-mkrescue (1

Re: How do I install the rescue kernel for fc38?

2023-08-29 Thread Geoffrey Leach
On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 13:25:04 +0930 Tim via users wrote: > Geoffrey Leach: > >> Put the FC 38 on a thumb drive and boot from there. Lots of useful > >> stuff. > > ToddAndMargo: > > That went over my head. > > > > :'( > > > > I think they're suggesting that if you wanted to rescue a system,

Re: How do I install the rescue kernel for fc38?

2023-08-29 Thread Tim via users
Geoffrey Leach: >> Put the FC 38 on a thumb drive and boot from there. Lots of useful >> stuff. ToddAndMargo: > That went over my head. > > :'( > I think they're suggesting that if you wanted to rescue a system, it may be beneficial to boot from something else, such as a live install of Fedora

Re: How do I install the rescue kernel for fc38?

2023-08-29 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 8/29/23 10:41, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote: I've found that removing the rescue files from /boot and then doing a dnf reinstall kernel-core will do it. Did just run it to make sure, paste has wrapping, but hopefully one can follow. # cd /boot # ls -l*rescue* -rw---. 1 root root

Re: How do I install the rescue kernel for fc38?

2023-08-29 Thread Michael D. Setzer II via users
On 29 Aug 2023 at 8:20, stan via users wrote: Date sent: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 08:20:48 -0700 To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject:Re: How do I install the rescue kernel for fc38? Organization: zohofree Send reply to: Community

Re: How do I install the rescue kernel for fc38?

2023-08-29 Thread Joachim Backes
On 29.08.23 13:14, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Fedora 38 My rescue kernel is FC30. How do I install the FC38 rescue kernel? # dnf whatprovides kernel\* | grep -i rescue And my search engine is not helping. Many thanks, -T Have a look at: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org

Re: How do I install the rescue kernel for fc38?

2023-08-29 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 04:14:03 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > Fedora 38 > > My rescue kernel is FC30. > > How do I install the FC38 rescue kernel? There isn't one, it is just an ordinary kernel with all drivers available. > > # dnf whatpr

Re: How do I install the rescue kernel for fc38?

2023-08-29 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 8:06 AM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > > Fedora 38 > > My rescue kernel is FC30. > > How do I install the FC38 rescue kernel? > > # dnf whatprovides kernel\* | grep -i rescue > $ grep -IR dracut_rescue_image /usr/lib/dracut /usr/

Re: How do I install the rescue kernel for fc38?

2023-08-29 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 8/29/23 05:31, Geoffrey Leach wrote: On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 04:14:03 -0700 ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Hi All, Fedora 38 My rescue kernel is FC30. How do I install the FC38 rescue kernel? # dnf whatprovides kernel\* | grep -i rescue And my search engine is not helping. Many thanks

Re: How do I install the rescue kernel for fc38?

2023-08-29 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 8/29/23 05:56, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 8:06 AM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Fedora 38 My rescue kernel is FC30. How do I install the FC38 rescue kernel? # dnf whatprovides kernel\* | grep -i rescue $ grep -IR dracut_rescue_image /usr/lib/dracut /usr/lib/dracut

Re: How do I install the rescue kernel for fc38?

2023-08-29 Thread Ralf Corsépius
Am 29.08.23 um 13:14 schrieb ToddAndMargo via users: Hi All, Fedora 38 My rescue kernel is FC30. How do I install the FC38 rescue kernel? # dnf whatprovides kernel\* | grep -i rescue And my search engine is not helping. # dnf install dracut-config-rescue probably is what you are

Re: How do I install the rescue kernel for fc38?

2023-08-29 Thread Jerry James
On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 6:06 AM ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Fedora 38 > > My rescue kernel is FC30. > > How do I install the FC38 rescue kernel? > > # dnf whatprovides kernel\* | grep -i rescue > Make sure you have dracut-config-rescue installed. Then run: sudo rm

How do I install the rescue kernel for fc38?

2023-08-29 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
Hi All, Fedora 38 My rescue kernel is FC30. How do I install the FC38 rescue kernel? # dnf whatprovides kernel\* | grep -i rescue And my search engine is not helping. Many thanks, -T -- ~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you

Don't use reinstall while updating the rescue kernel

2023-06-03 Thread George N. White III
depmod: WARNING: could not open modules.order at /lib/modules/6.2.0-63.fc38.x86_64 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2173984 Some web sites suggest running "dnf reinstall 'kernel-core*'" after deleting "/boot/*-rescue-*". Until the bug is fixed, don't! -- George N. White III ___

Re: rescue kernel

2022-07-26 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 7/26/22 23:42, Patrick Dupre wrote: Do I really need to get this *rescue* files ? grub complains, and I cannot boot on the last kernel. You don't need it. If you're referring to the rescue entry, then if the files don't exist, the entry obviously won't work. If you don't want that entry,

Re: rescue kernel

2022-07-26 Thread Patrick Dupre
dora" > Subject: rescue kernel > > Hello, > > In the past I could regenerate a rescue kernel by using > /etc/kernel/postinst.d/51-dracut-rescue-postinst.sh > > But now, this script does not exist any more > What is the altern

Re: rescue kernel

2022-07-26 Thread stan via users
On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 20:08:51 +0200 Patrick Dupre wrote: > In the past I could regenerate a rescue kernel by using > /etc/kernel/postinst.d/51-dracut-rescue-postinst.sh > > But now, this script does not exist any more > What is the alternative to restore the /boot/*rescue* files

rescue kernel

2022-07-26 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, In the past I could regenerate a rescue kernel by using /etc/kernel/postinst.d/51-dracut-rescue-postinst.sh But now, this script does not exist any more What is the alternative to restore the /boot/*rescue* files? Thank

Re: does rescue kernel ever update

2021-06-04 Thread Sam Varshavchik
ng similar, for removing the rescue kernel. pgpUARGXYbWE3.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Condu

Re: does rescue kernel ever update

2021-06-04 Thread Jon LaBadie
update a rescue kernel? Are there best practices for rescue kernel update? If there are, I've missed them. I don't think anybody gave an example of procedure to update... 1. Turn off auto updates to dnf. 2. Daily update: sudo dnf upgrade 2a. If there is not kernel update hit "Yes&quo

Re: does rescue kernel ever update

2021-06-04 Thread Doug H.
On Thu, Jun 3, 2021, at 11:20 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On my 3 systems, F34, F34, and CentOS7, they are > 1, 2, and 6 years old respectively. > > Are old rescue kernels still useful? (6 years?) > > Are there automated or manual procedures to update > a rescue kernel

Re: does rescue kernel ever update

2021-06-04 Thread George N. White III
On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 at 02:51, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 03:48:29PM -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > > But I believe POC's point was not about BTRFS specifically, > but that something could have changed over the years to make > an old rescue kernel unusable. &g

Re: does rescue kernel ever update

2021-06-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2021-06-04 at 14:46 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > On Thu, 2021-06-03 at 17:23 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > > What I would like to see is (a) an initramfs that can boot a > > graphical stack (b) contains the Live OS dracut modules (c) and > > overlayfs, and wire it up so that the rescue boot

Re: does rescue kernel ever update

2021-06-04 Thread Chris Murphy
just as useful as they were when they were installed. > > Of > > course, that means that any function that was added later isn't > > there, > > but that doesn't matter because you're only going to use it in > > emergencies to troubleshoot a broken system. >

Re: does rescue kernel ever update

2021-06-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
they are useless. The rescue kernel is really just a "no host-only" initramfs that contains a bunch of extra dracut and kernel modules that the host only initramfs doesn't. The difficulty is the rescue initramfs can't do a full graphical boot once /usr/lib/modules/ dir for

Re: does rescue kernel ever update

2021-06-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 03:48:29PM -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: On 6/3/21 3:18 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Surely an old rescue kernel may not be able to mount a BTRFS filesystem? BTRFS has been a fully stable part of the kernel since 2013. How old is your rescue kernel? Close, one sys

Re: does rescue kernel ever update

2021-06-03 Thread Tim via users
On Thu, 2021-06-03 at 17:23 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: > What I would like to see is (a) an initramfs that can boot a > graphical stack (b) contains the Live OS dracut modules (c) and > overlayfs, and wire it up so that the rescue boot entry does a read- > only sysroot boot + writable overlay like

Re: does rescue kernel ever update

2021-06-03 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 12:20 PM Jon LaBadie wrote: > > On my 3 systems, F34, F34, and CentOS7, they are > 1, 2, and 6 years old respectively. > > Are old rescue kernels still useful? (6 years?) They might be useful to a sysadmin, I think they are useless. The rescue kernel is re

Re: does rescue kernel ever update

2021-06-03 Thread Joe Zeff
On 6/3/21 3:54 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: It was a theoretical question. My rescue kernel is recent. As I expected. I answered the way I did as a form of reducto ad absurdum. ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubs

Re: does rescue kernel ever update

2021-06-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2021-06-03 at 15:48 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 6/3/21 3:18 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Surely an old rescue kernel may not be able to mount a BTRFS > > filesystem? > > BTRFS has been a fully stable part of the kernel since 2013.  How old > is &g

Re: does rescue kernel ever update

2021-06-03 Thread Joe Zeff
On 6/3/21 3:18 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: Surely an old rescue kernel may not be able to mount a BTRFS filesystem? BTRFS has been a fully stable part of the kernel since 2013. How old is your rescue kernel? ___ users mailing list --

Re: does rescue kernel ever update

2021-06-03 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
ction that was added later isn't > there, > but that doesn't matter because you're only going to use it in > emergencies to troubleshoot a broken system. Surely an old rescue kernel may not be able to mount a BTRFS filesystem? poc ___

Re: does rescue kernel ever update

2021-06-03 Thread old sixpack13
> On 6/3/21 11:20 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > If you delete the rescue kernel and initrd, they will be recreated the > next time you install a kernel. [KlugscheissMode on] what is only valide when: - no one has changed the default "yes" to "no" in /usr/lib/dra

Re: does rescue kernel ever update

2021-06-03 Thread Lester M Petrie
rescue initrd includes all available drivers and so can boot even if the drive is in a very different system from the one it was installed on. Are there automated or manual procedures to update a rescue kernel? There's generally no reason to. But you can with /etc/kernel/postinst.d/51-dracut-r

Re: does rescue kernel ever update

2021-06-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 6/3/21 11:20 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote: Are there automated or manual procedures to update a rescue kernel? If you delete the rescue kernel and initrd, they will be recreated the next time you install a kernel. ___ users mailing list -- users

Re: does rescue kernel ever update

2021-06-03 Thread Joe Zeff
On 6/3/21 12:20 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote: Are old rescue kernels still useful?  (6 years?) They're still just as useful as they were when they were installed. Of course, that means that any function that was added later isn't there, but that doesn't matter because you're only going to use it i

Re: does rescue kernel ever update

2021-06-03 Thread Matthew Miller
ll available drivers and so can boot even if the drive is in a very different system from the one it was installed on. > Are there automated or manual procedures to update > a rescue kernel? There's generally no reason to. But you can with /etc/kernel/postinst.d/51-dracut-rescue-postins

does rescue kernel ever update

2021-06-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On my 3 systems, F34, F34, and CentOS7, they are 1, 2, and 6 years old respectively. Are old rescue kernels still useful? (6 years?) Are there automated or manual procedures to update a rescue kernel? Are there best practices for rescue kernel update? If there are, I've missed them. --

Re: Rescue kernel after upgrade

2018-05-07 Thread Tom H
On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 9:33 PM, Chris Kottaridis wrote: > > I upgraded from F25 to F27 a while ago and everything seems good except at > boot up the rescue kernel is still showing F25. The other three kernels are > all F27 versions. > > What's the proper way to get an

Re: Rescue kernel after upgrade

2018-05-05 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 05/05/2018 06:33 PM, Chris Kottaridis wrote: I upgraded from F25 to F27 a while ago and everything seems good except at boot up the rescue kernel is still showing F25. The other three kernels are all F27 versions. What's the proper way to get an appropriate F27 rescue kernel instead o

Rescue kernel after upgrade

2018-05-05 Thread Chris Kottaridis
I upgraded from F25 to F27 a while ago and everything seems good except at boot up the rescue kernel is still showing F25. The other three kernels are all F27 versions. What's the proper way to get an appropriate F27 rescue kernel instead of an F25 rescue kernel ? T

Re: rescue kernel

2015-02-09 Thread Chris Murphy
Not revealing. If you now have the rescue initramfs you want though, and there's a matching vmlinux in /boot, then it should be true that grub2-mkconfig will create an entry for it. I supposed it's possible this rescue entry is always made by grub2-mkconfig, and not grubby because the usual case a

Re: rescue kernel

2015-02-09 Thread Patrick Dupre
"Community support for Fedora users" > Subject: Re: rescue kernel > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I tried to generate a new rescue kernel. > > I did: > > /etc/kernel/postinst.d/51-dracut-rescue-postinst.sh $

Re: rescue kernel

2015-02-09 Thread Chris Murphy
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to generate a new rescue kernel. > I did: > /etc/kernel/postinst.d/51-dracut-rescue-postinst.sh $(uname -r) > /boot/vmlinuz-$(uname -r) > > I did not get any thing done. > Thus I check

rescue kernel

2015-02-09 Thread Patrick Dupre
Hello, I tried to generate a new rescue kernel. I did: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/51-dracut-rescue-postinst.sh $(uname -r) /boot/vmlinuz-$(uname -r) I did not get any thing done. Thus I checked the file: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/51-dracut-rescue-postinst.sh and commented the line: [[ -f