[TriLUG] Mandrake 9.2 kernel install clobbers grub config!?

[Brian Weaver]

Thanks, but I read the GRUB documentation and rebuilt my menu.lst file
by hand. That and I used another 9.2 system at home as a reference. I
really wish I knew what happened. This kind of data loss just isn't
acceptable from an installation of an RPM (some losses are worse than
others). It makes we wonder if I really wish to continue to use Mandrake
after this experience. If I hadn't checked and just rebooted my internet
connection would be toast and I'd be spending far more time trying to
figure out what happened that I desire.

I'm still running the old kernel right now. I'm kind of afraid to reboot
at this point..... Kind of makes me feel like I'm using Windows again.

-Weave


Jason Tower [jason at cerient.net] wrote on Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 01:26:56AM -0400:
> i just checked one of my mdk92 servers, unfortunately it is using lilo 
> not grub.  but i'll be happy to send to the lilo config file if you 
> want, at least you could install lilo and keep your system bootable.
> 
> jason
> 
> On Thursday 17 June 2004 01:06, Brian Weaver wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've had a box running Mandrake 9.2 that has been stable for a very
> > long time. I went though the effort today to make sure that it's
> > update mirror was current and then did a 'urpmi --auto-select' to
> > upgrade the system.
> >
> > While I was at it I decided to install a more current kernel. I used
> > the command 'urpmi kernel-2.4.22.32mdk-1-1mdk'. Everything appeared
> > to go fine. Luckly for me I decided to see which kernel it would boot
> > into the next time the system was restarted (93 days so far). That's
> > when I noticed that ALL of my grub configuration files were missing!
> >
> > Does anyone know of any issues with installing a new kernel in
> > Mandrake 9.2, or how to easily regenerate the missing grub files? I
> > think I may have a tarball of the old files, but I'm not sure. This
> > is the first time I've tried to upgrade a kernel on a Mandrake box.
> > I've never had a problem on a RedHat system when I've performed a
> > kernel upgrade.
> >
> > Any thoughts..... BTW I'm praying for no serious power failures until
> > I can resolve this issue. Since this is my gateway box I would be cut
> > off from the internet if goes down.
> >
> > -Weave
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