jlc Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 DOlson, I mean someone. I have Debian up and running, but LILO's menu wouldn't come up, just boot's into what ever kernel is there automatically. So I installed GRUB. Followed instructions from here: http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=m...rtid=539&page=1 Everything looked fine, reboot and I get: Error 15: File not found Here is my menu.lst ## ## End Default Options ## title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 root=/dev/hda3 ro savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4 (recovery mode) root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 root=/dev/hda3 ro single savedefault boot ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST /dev/hda1 = /boot /dev/hda3 = / I've tried changeing root (hd0,2) to root (hd0,0) also the line: /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 root=/dev/hda3 ro was originally: /vmlinuz*********blahblahblah But either way I've tried different way's to get it to work. Could reiserfs cause this? I'm on sid too. Anyone know why it breaks? I even went and made my own menu.lst file the way I have in Gentoo countless times and still no worky jerky. :wink: P.S. Good thing for a boot floppy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 don't have nforce do ya? http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...t=5232&start=15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah31 Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 this is from the notes in the arch linux menu.lst....i dunno if will help but you did mention your vmlinuz is on another partition: # use this if your /boot/vmlinuz is on a different partition #kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/discs/disc0/part3 ro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted July 23, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 No nforce and I've tried the different configurations and I get's nothing. Currently I'm in Slack so I can burn some CD's iso's. :wink: I'll go back to Debain when I'm done. It takes all of about 15 minutes to install so it wont be hard to switch back. Just got to get those ISO's going! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarah31 Posted July 24, 2003 Report Share Posted July 24, 2003 your problem is that you are incorrectly telling grub where your kernel image is. if /boot is on a separate partition you cannot use /boot/vmlinuz grub does not understand that because it is looking for it in /. so you must pass it the literal path (essentially you are tricking grub into thinking that /boot partition is /). so if you /boot partition is say the first partition on your drive you must put: kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdax (where x stands for the partition number of where your root partition is) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlc Posted July 24, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 24, 2003 your problem is that you are incorrectly telling grub where your kernel image is. if /boot is on a separate partition you cannot use /boot/vmlinuz grub does not understand that because it is looking for it in /. so you must pass it the literal path (essentially you are tricking grub into thinking that /boot partition is /). so if you /boot partition is say the first partition on your drive you must put: kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdax (where x stands for the partition number of where your root partition is) Tried that. :wink: Currently I'm in SuSE because I had to get some work done and will go back this weekend and play with it. Thanks you for your suggestions. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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