Re: where grub files go?

[Yedidyah Bar-David]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:23:43AM -0400, Wu, Qishi wrote:
> 
>    Dear sir/madam,
> 
> 
>    I installed a new linux kernel 2.4.21 for my redhat 9.0 (with a kernel
>    2.4.20) and patched web100 to it. Everything went just normally when I
>    compiled  and  installed  the new kernel. However, after I patched the
>    web100  and  recompiled the 2.4.21-web100 kernel, I found that all the
>    contents  under  /boot  are  gone  except  one file kernel.h, which is
>    claimed to be automatically generated at boot time. When I restart the
>    computer,  the  grub is still loading the previous boot menu interface
>    and  the  system  is  still  able  to boot from one of those kernels I
>    installed (2.4.20, 2.4.21, and 2.4.21-web100).
> 
> 
>    I'd  really  appreciate  it  if  you  can  clue  me  on  the following
>    questions:
> 
> 
>    1)  Who  deleted  the  contents  under  /boot, web100 or grub? Is it a
>    mistake  or a new booting mechanism? I guess maybe those files are not
>    deleted at all. They just can't be seen by the system.
> 

My guess is that you have a different partition for /boot, and that
for some reason it's not mounted. Look at your /etc/fstab, fdisk,
etc. and try to mount it manually (or give us more details to help
you).
-- 
Didi

> 
>    2)  Why  is  the  system  still able to boot without grub.conf and any
>    image files under /boot? Where do those files go?
> 
> 
>    Thanks a lot!!
> 
> 
>    Qishi

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