Grub Error 15: File not found
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Mon Jan 31 00:50:50 UTC 2005
On Sunday 30 January 2005 17:16, akonstam at trinity.edu wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 10:11:10AM -0500, Cop7586 wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> >> I've recently built a new kernel and can't boot into my new
>> >> kernel. I've updated my /boot/grub/grub.conf file as follows
>> >> with the new kernel.
>> >>
>> >> # 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/hda2
>> >> # initrd /initrd-version.img
>> >> #boot=/dev/hda
>> >> default=0
>> >> timeout=10
>> >> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>> >> title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-6)
>> >> root (hd0,0)
>> >> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-6 ro root=LABEL=/
>> >> initrd /initrd-2.4.20-6.img
>> >> title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-6new)
>> >> root (hd0,0)
kernel /bzImage-2.4.20-6new ro root=LABEL=? <-typu, the '/'
is on the same key, unshifted
>> >> initrd /initrd-2.4.20-6new.img
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted
>> >> on /dev/hda2 7787744 1649900 5742244 23% /
>> >> /dev/hda1 202220 14004 177776 8% /boot
>> >> none 192560 0 192560 0%
>> >> /dev/shm
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I'm assuming I did everything correctly in the grub.conf file.
>> >> When I reboot the system and try to load my new kernel all I
>> >> get is
>> >>
>> >> Root (hd0,1)
>> >> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type is 0x83
>> >>
>> >> Kernel /bzImage-2.4.20-6new ro root=/dev/hda2 ro root=/dev/hda2
>> >>
>> >> Error 15: File not found
>> >>
>> >> Press any key to continue...
>
>The basic problem here is that identification of the root on the
>kernel line has to match the identification of the root in the
> fstab. The basic problem here is that identification of the root on
> the kernel line has to match the identification of the root in the
> fstab. You can't have root=LABEL=/ for one and /dev/hda2 for the
> other.
>
>> >> when I type in
>> >>
>> >> grub> find /grub/stage1
>> >> (0,0)
>
>First you need to have a: root (hd0,1) command The command above
>should give an error then.
>
>> >> grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
>> >>
>> >> file not found
>
>The command above should work then, etc, etc and so on.
>
>> >> grub> find /grub/stage2 from
>> >> (0,0)
>> >>
>> >> grub> find /grub/menu.lst
>> >> (0,0)
>> >>
>> >> What am I missing? Please help.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Best regards,
>> >>
>> >> Chris
>>
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