<snip>>Your system was most likely rebuilding the initrd, and you interrupted >it leaving you with a broken initrd. > >Try booting off a rescue disk and chroot into the install, and run: > >dracut -f -v > >to regenerate all the initrds. > >Also, you don't need to reinstall the kernel but just do a 'yum >update' to get everything up to the latest release. The shim package >with the fix is the latest. > >-- >Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org> >___Jonathan et al: On the assumption that all the updates should now "just work", I did a from-scratch reinstall of a minimal Centos 7 system starting from netinstall and added software that I've always added (perl, dhcp, mariadb, etc). I did not exclude shim, etc in "/etc/yum.conf". After all the updates, the system was NOT bootable. I repeated the install and updates, but this time including the line in /etc/yum.conf exclude=grub2* shim* mokutil and ended up with a usable system. This was not the result I was hoping for. David
On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 13:44:05 -0700 david wrote:> After all the updates, the system was NOT bootable.How long did you wait for it to boot, and what did it do when it failed to boot? What text messages showed up on the console? Any reported errors when you ran the update or when you rebooted the computer? If so, what did the say? I personally haven't had any issues updating any of my computers (using a mix of Centos 6, 7 and 8) but maybe they're all too old to for the issue to show up. -- Can we uninstall 2020 and install it again? This one has a virus. MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com
At 01:54 PM 8/4/2020, you wrote:>On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 13:44:05 -0700 >david wrote: > > > After all the updates, the system was NOT bootable. > >How long did you wait for it to boot, and what did it do when it >failed to boot? What text messages showed up on the console? Any >reported errors when you ran the update or when you rebooted the >computer? If so, what did the say? > >I personally haven't had any issues updating any of my computers >(using a mix of Centos 6, 7 and 8) but maybe they're all too old to >for the issue to show up. > >--How long did I wait: 5 minutes What on the console: nothing, just a dull gray color Errors on update: none --------------------- But when I blocked the update, it booted within a minute, and ran.