Re: empty /boot directory

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

Eddy Haaksma wrote:
> This morning I rebooted my Debian-server.
>
> After a while Grub responded during te boot-process with: Error 15 file 
> not found.
>
> To my surprise the whole boot directory appears to be empty, except for 
> the /boot/grub directory.
>
> The server is a HP Proliant 360 with a smartarray controller.
>
> What I probably need to do is to reinstall a kernel image.
>
> I can boot with a Debian-installer CD, but I don’t know how to manually 
> mount what was /dev/cciss/c0d0p1.
>
> After running the hardware detection I do have a /dev/cciss/disc0/par1
Have you recently upgraded your kernel?

I'm no expert for your particular raid array (am I correct, that your 
/boot is part of a raid system?). Maybe I had a similar problem on our 
Mylex Raid: partitions had a different 'name' on booting with a 2.4 
kernel than with version 2.6. First thing, I would make sure to use the 
same kernel on booting than the one that had a running raid array.

(boot: linux for 2.4 and boot: linux26 for 2.6)

Then at least the /dev/cciss... should be as before

Johannes