Re: [gentoo-user] grub boot problem

[Dale <dalek1967@bellsouth.net>]

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

Hi,

Another thing you can try is tab completion in the grub menu.  Just hit 
the "e" key twice and let grub help you with what kernels it can see. 

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)
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