From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KFHTH-0001HN-Mg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:47:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A845E045E; Sat, 5 Jul 2008 23:47:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blingymail-a2.g.dreamhost.com (lax-green-bigip-5.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ECE2E045E for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2008 23:47:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.194.217.10] (unknown [212.21.116.18]) by blingymail-a2.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2974140CA7 for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2008 16:47:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <487007FE.8090805@genestate.com> Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:47:10 +0100 From: Matt Harrison User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem References: <200807051904.08373.gentoo@matthewlee.org> <200807060015.19767.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200807051938.23513.gentoo@matthewlee.org> In-Reply-To: <200807051938.23513.gentoo@matthewlee.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6250b2a7-1312-4545-945a-2a0011c9ab27 X-Archives-Hash: 47673353837541f49b11aee5262eaafe 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 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list