grub.conf and multiple kernels...

[fun4stuff]

every few days a option appears on my grub menu all by itself... perhaps a new kernel version. the thing is, it doesnt delete the old one and in the new one, certain things do not work- like it won't mount ntfs drives. does anyone know what is going on here and perhaps how i could get it so it would automatically add ntfs support and remove the old from the grub menu?

here is my grub.conf...

title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1398_FC4)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ early-login quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1390_FC4)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ early-login quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1387_FC4)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1387_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ early-login quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.12-1.1387_FC4.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ early-login quiet
#kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=/dev/hda6
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1

[tashirosgt]

If you do automatic updates then you get new kernels. That's the only way that I know that they can appear in grub automatically. Once you get your /etc/fstab so your NFS mounts work, save a copy of it under a different name and see if it changes. If updates change it then this is news to me.

[tashirosgt]

...and one thing that I recall about updates is that they can remove suid permissions on commands like smbmnt (which is used by smbmount) so a non-root user may find himself unable to mount files on remote machines.

[Christy]

It's kernel updates - and the ntfs partitions won't work when the kernel is updated until you install the module for the new kernel ( http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/fedora4.html )

edit: and as for cleaning up the grub menu, you need to delete entrys you don't want from /boot/grub/grub.conf - I don't know of a way to have the entries automatically updated to remove old kernels.

[Jman]

Removing old kernels removes the grub entry. You have to specifiy the full version with the "yum remove" command. Get a list of them with

rpm -q kernel

[fun4stuff]

ok thanks guys. is there any way to configure automatic update so that it will automatically keep the ntfs support so that i dont have to keep adding it to fstab?

[mkoljack]

You don't have to add anything to fstab, you should have a line int /etc/fstab to auto mount your ntfs partition.

The problem is you need to install the rpm which matches the newly released kernel from the ntfs project (link provided in earlier post). These rpms are usually on the site either the day of kernel release or by the next day (latest). Then boot into the new kernel and you can read your ntfs partition.

No need to do anything with fstab beyond adding the line once in /etc/fstab. Mine looks like this:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,defaults,umask=0222 0 0

Good Luck!