Hi All,

I have just done a reinstall of Centos 5.3 on a dedicated server (via a KVM). My partition arrangement was the default presented to me by the installer:

100Mb /dev/sda1 for /boot
460Gb /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 for /

As you can see, I'm using LVM for everything other than /boot (I need to use LVM for an app I am testing).

On reboot, I get the following:

It looks like it can't find vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5 in /boot.

I have rebooted using the Centos Install Disk 1 and gone in to rescue mode. Rescue mode mounted my / under /mnt/sysimage, from there I could see that /boot had been mounted from /dev/sda1 as it should be.

However, there was no initrd.image or /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5 under /boot or /boot/grub. Shouldn't the CentOS installer have created these?

Is there anyway I can recover this installation?

All help is very gratefully received.

Regards

Al

You need to boot from Linux CD/DVD, chroot to /mnt/sysimage and setup grub again.

Here is link to the tutorial that should help. If it does not, google for GRUB, chroot and recovery.

Link for GRUB FAQ.

Check the content of /boot/grub/grub.conf, then search for those files.
As above, it's possible grub is not setup correctly.
Have a look at

fdisk -l

(lower L) to see if it matches.