Bug 78643 - GRUB hangs after upgrade from kernel 2.4.18-17.7.x to 2.4.18-18.7.x
Summary: GRUB hangs after upgrade from kernel 2.4.18-17.7.x to 2.4.18-18.7.x
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: up2date
Version: 7.2
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Adrian Likins
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-11-26 20:55 UTC by daryld
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:48 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2004-08-26 21:31:56 UTC
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Description daryld 2002-11-26 20:55:38 UTC 
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Description of problem:
I did an 'up2date -u -f kernel kernel-source'. It seemed to complete
successfully. Now a reboot hangs on a screen that is all blank except that the
word "GRUB" is in the top left corner. I am able to boot the system with the
emergency boot disk. After booting this way, I made another boot disk with the
new kernel on it. I am also able to boot with this new boot disk.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.8.39-1.7.2


How reproducible:
Didn't try


Additional info:

The system is an IBM eserver xSeries 330. There are two hard drives in it which
are mirrored using md. I have upgraded the kernel before using this same process
without any problems (kernel 2.4.9-34 to 2.4.18-17.7.x)
Comment 1 Adrian Likins 2004-08-26 21:31:56 UTC 
there were some issues updating bootloader config on
systems with root on md, this should be resolved with current
releases.
Comment 2 Scott Nash 2005-03-02 18:56:51 UTC 
it isn't
Comment 3 Scott Nash 2005-03-02 18:58:29 UTC 
Upgraded via up2date hoping to fix nonworking fan in Ideq 200p.  Stops
at Grub.
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