GRUB problem with CentOS5.8 , won't boot

[crp]

I'm back (http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.php?showtopic=59742entry365001).

 

This morning the CentOS5.8 rebooted itself for reasons unknown.

Worse , it would not boot, got an error of File 15 file does not exist.

 

Booted up with a LiveCD , mounted sda1 to /mnt/custom and sure enough:

root@sysresccd /mnt/custom % ls -lR
.:
total 95
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  1024 Jan  9 09:38 grub
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 May 17  2010 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80032 Mar 16  2009 message

./grub:
total 257
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     63 May 17  2010 device.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7584 May 17  2010 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7456 May 17  2010 fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6720 May 17  2010 ffs_stage1_5
-rw------- 1 root root    713 Dec 21 01:30 grub.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6720 May 17  2010 iso9660_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8224 May 17  2010 jfs_stage1_5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     11 May 17  2010 menu.lst -> ./grub.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6880 May 17  2010 minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   9248 May 17  2010 reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  55808 Mar 16  2009 splash.xpm.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    512 May 17  2010 stage1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104988 May 17  2010 stage2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   7072 May 17  2010 ufs2_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   6272 May 17  2010 vstafs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   8872 May 17  2010 xfs_stage1_5

./lost+found:
total 0

root@sysresccd /mnt/custom/grub % cat grub.conf 
# 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/VolGroup00/LogVol00
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title CentOS (2.6.18-274.17.1.el5.centos.plusxen)
       root (hd0,0)
       kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-274.17.1.el5.centos.plus
       module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-274.17.1.el5.centos.plusxen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
rhgb quiet
       module /initrd-2.6.18-274.17.1.el5.centos.plusxen.img

Anyone have

xen.gz-2.6.18-274.17.1.el5.centos.plus, vmlinuz-2.6.18-274.17.1.el5.centos.plusxen , initrd-2.6.18-274.17.1.el5.centos.plusxen.img

that they can ftp to me so I could put them in the root directory of sda ?

[securitybreach]

You should be able to find those packages here: http://rpm.pbone.net/

[réjean]

I have CentOS 6.2 and looked for your files but I cannot see them (even after checking the "show all files").

 

 

Then I tried Josh's link just for the fun of it but I got;

 

Edited May 10, 2013 by réjean

[crp]

got the system running again by doing an install of 5.8 (or .9 hard to tell) from a DVD which prompted that it found a linux os on the drive and did i want to update it. Still took some manual work after that (grub was not changed even though installation said it was) and pc is running & serving.