System Recovery ?

[JohnPtrs]

I have a FC6 box that I had a Xen kernel in, however I have some proprietary nvidia drivers I'm trying to install and Xen kernel is not supported so I removed xen and rebooted and now it just shows one instance of a xen kernel in the grub menu and says file not found... Does anyone know what direction I should go to try to recover this? Its not a production box and I could reload it if I had to but would prefer to salvage it if there is a way...

Thanks,

JP

 

[Annihilannic]

Have you tried booting off a CD in rescue mode (usually "linux rescue" at the "boot:" prompt) and attempting to reinstall the kernel that way?

Annihilannic.

 

[JohnPtrs]

Ok... I'll start with that and see what happens, thanks!

JP

 

[QatQat]

Be aware that grub says file not found for both kernel not found and initrd not found.

In the case of initrd missing a simple mkinitrd command will solve you problem.


Anyway from your description it seems like you have removed the old kernel and installing the new one has not updated grub (weird but it happens sometimes).
Did you install a different kernel with the Uvh option? That would explain this behavior.
Normally using the -ivh option leaves the old kernel and correctly adds a new kernel with related grub entry.

QatQat

If I could have sex each time I reboot my server, I would definitely prefer Windoz over Linux!