Restore of /boot

[Mike Reinehr]

On Thursday 09 June 2005 04:35 pm, Vu Pham wrote:
> > -----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

Yup, that sounds like a Windows admin! I guess you should have instructed him 
to type "p", "i", "n", "g", spacebar ... ;-)

Glad I could help.

cmr

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