Restore of /boot

[Vu Pham]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org 
> [mailto:linux-users-bounces at linux-sxs.org] On Behalf Of Mike Reinehr
> Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 1:17 PM
> To: Linux tips and tricks
> Subject: Re: Restore of /boot
> 
> Vu,
[...]
> 
> My guess is that for some reason the GRUB bootstrap written 
> to the MBR is not finding the GRUB files in /boot/grub after 
> you have restored /boot from tape. 
> So, here's something that you might try. Boot with the boot 
> files from your new RHE3 installation in /boot. Then restore 
> the /boot files from tape into another directory. Copy just 
> the kernel image files over manually into /boot. 
> Then, edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst file to use the new 
> kernel. (There was a thread about this recently. Not all 
> systems use menu.lst. I think some use menu.conf or some such 
> file, and there may only be a symlink in /boot/grub pointing 
> to your configuration file in /etc/... .)
> 

Thanks, Mike. What I just did is to retore the /boot on tape to a separate
folder then, like you said, copy the two files vmlinuz-xxx and its
corresponding initrd-xxx file to /boot then edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to use
these two files. The server is working fine now.

A funny thing : I am in Houston and the server in Columbus,OH. I had a
Windows admin there over phone to help me to install the minimal Linux. When
I asked him to ping somewhere in order to know if the network interface is
working so that I can access it. He told me it found nothing. Finally the
problem was he tried the command "pingsomewhere". :-)

Thanks,

Vu