From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051118 Fedora/1.5-0.5.0.rc3 Firefox/1.5 Description of problem: When running "yum update", I see these error messages: Installing: kernel ##################### [216/490] grubby: no boot line found in lilo configuration grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template Note that /etc/lilo.conf does exist, and is a zero-sized file. "rpm -qf" claims /etc/lilo.conf isn't owned by any package. Not sure where it came from - I didn't create it; I use grub (on this machine at least)! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mkinitrd-5.0.12-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install fc5test1 2. yum update 3. Notice the /boot/grub/grub.conf was updated OK, so that part worked. Once the above was done, I noticed that I still had the kernel-smp package installed (due to installer mis-detecting my machine), so I ran "rpm -e kernel-smp" and got these similar results: grubby: no boot line found in lilo configuration grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template grubby: doing this would leave no kernel entries. Not writing out new config. Additional info:
If you remove lilo.conf, does it work?
Closing due to lack of response from reporter. The problem is almost certainly the stray lilo.conf file.