Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

["Matthew R. Lee" <gentoo@matthewlee.org>]

On Saturday 05 July 2008 19:47:10 Matt Harrison wrote:
> Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > On Saturday 05 July 2008 19:15:05 Mick wrote:
> >> On Sunday 06 July 2008, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> >>> I've just compiled a new kernel, but when I reboot grub will not load
> >>> the new kernel. I get error 15 (file not found). But the file is there.
> >>> Yes grub is install properly and yes the boot partition was mounted
> >>> when I copied the new kernel across and changed the grub.conf. What's
> >>> really confusing me is there's no syntax error in the grub.conf that I
> >>> can see, and the first kernel on the list boots fine.  Anyone got any
> >>> cluse as to why grub can't see the second kernel?
> >>>
> >>> [grub.conf]
> >>> default 0
> >>>
> >>> timeout 30
> >>>
> >>> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> >>>
> >>> title=Gentoo 2.6.22-r2
> >>>
> >>> root (hd0,0)
> >>> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3
> >>> video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,1280x800-24@70
> >>>
> >>> title=Gentoo 2.6.24-r8
> >>>
> >>> root (hd0,0)
> >>> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.24-r8 root=/dev/sda3
> >>> video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,1280x800-24@70
> >>
> >> Could you please show us:
> >>
> >> $ mount
> >>
> >> and
> >>
> >> # ls -la /boot
> >
> > /dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime)
> > proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec)
> > udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid)
> > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec)
> > shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
> > usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs
> > (rw,noexec,nosuid,devmode=0664,devgid=85) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2
> > (rw)
> >
> > total 17256
> > drwxr-xr-x  5 root root    1024 Jul  5 18:28 .
> > drwxr-xr-x 21 root root    4096 Dec 29  2007 ..
> > drwxr-xr-x  4 root root    1024 Aug 16  2007 boot
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   37395 Dec 25  2006 config-2.6.18-r5
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   35286 Dec 28  2006 config-2.6.18-r6
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   29907 Jul 19  2007 config-2.6.21-r4
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   39449 Aug  4  2007 config-2.6.22-r2
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   44583 Jul  5 18:48 config-2.6.24-r8
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root   44541 Jun 23 18:25 config-2.6.25-r5
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    1024 Jun 23 17:02 grub
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  486761 Oct  7  2006 initrd.img-2.6.17-sata
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1637016 Dec 25  2006 kernel-2.6.18-r5
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1606118 Dec 28  2006 kernel-2.6.18-r6
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1916280 Jul 19  2007 kernel-2.6.21-r4
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1740624 Aug  4  2007 kernel-2.6.22-r2
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1847000 Jul  5 18:48 kernel-2.6.24-r8
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 2952220 Jun 23 18:24 kernel-2.6.25-r5
> > drwx------  2 root root   12288 Dec 27  2007 lost+found
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  738926 Dec 25  2006 system.map-2.6.18-r5
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  712206 Dec 28  2006 system.map-2.6.18-r6
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  813409 Jul 19  2007 system.map-2.6.21-r4
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  810321 Aug  4  2007 system.map-2.6.22-r2
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root  870491 Jul  5 18:48 system.map-2.6.24-r8
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1183038 Jun 23 18:25 system.map-2.6.25-r5
> >
> > I should probably give /boot a clean, but could this be the problem?
>
> According to your grub.conf your default is the top entry, but the
> kernel image for that doesn't exist in your boot partition.
>
> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2-2 root=/dev/sda3
>
> should probably be
>
> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.22-r2 root=/dev/sda3
>
> Thats if 2.6.22-r2 is the kernel your trying to boot.
>
> HTH
>
> Matt

This is wierd, I hadn't noticed that, but that's not causing the problem.
I'm running the 2.6.22-r2 kernel now, that's the one that boots, the 2.6.24-r8 
is the one grub can't find. 
Matt

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Universidad Austral de Chile
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