Bug 84683 - grubby failure during kernel upgrade
Summary: grubby failure during kernel upgrade
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: mkinitrd
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks: 79579
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Reported: 2003-02-20 10:41 UTC by Pavel
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-06-11 03:47:45 UTC
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Description Pavel 2003-02-20 10:41:10 UTC
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Description of problem:
I have a phoebe2 system upgraded to latest rawhide. When I try to upgrade a
kernel to 2.4.20-2.49 I get an error message:
grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template 

I tried it with mkinitrd 3.4.35 (comes with phoebe2), 3.4.36 (from up2date) and
3.4.42 (rawhide). 

I didn't modify grub.conf manually (except changing timeout from 10 to 3 seconds).

I had same problems upgarding kernel to 2.4.20-2.48, but somehow I managed to do
it with one of the mkinitrd versions.

My system is Pentium166 MMX if it matters.

My grub.conf file:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=3
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-2.48)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-2.48 ro root=LABEL=/
	initrd /initrd-2.4.20-2.48.img 

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade to rawhide kernel
2.
3.
    

Actual Results:  grubby reports an error and does not modify grub.conf

Expected Results:  upgrade kernel

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2003-03-20 17:46:52 UTC
Reassigning

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2003-04-02 05:58:57 UTC
Does this happen with the final Red Hat Linux 9 release?

Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2003-06-11 03:47:45 UTC
Closing due to activity.  Please reopen if you have further information to add
to this bug report.


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