[gentoo-user] Grub error 15: file not found

[gentoo-user] Grub error 15: file not found

[Brenton]

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Hi,

When I try to edit the /dev/sda to /dev/hda I'm not sure how to save my
change when I edit in grub.  I make a change then go back to check and it
never saves.

I'm only trying to follow the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook.

Thanks,

Brenton.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Grub error 15: file not found

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Brenton<brentons.house@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I try to edit the /dev/sda to /dev/hda I'm not sure how to save my
> change when I edit in grub.  I make a change then go back to check and it
> never saves.
>
> I'm only trying to follow the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brenton.

Brenton,
   I only edit there to test something I've broken and am not sure of
the answer. Editing there doesn't, to the best of my knowledge, ever
edit the /boot/grub/grub.conf file. If my fix worked and the system
boots, then after it boots I mount /boot and edit grub.conf by hand
using vi.

Hope this helps,
Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub error 15: file not found

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 28 July 2009 02:16:49 Brenton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I try to edit the /dev/sda to /dev/hda I'm not sure how to save my
> change when I edit in grub.  I make a change then go back to check and it
> never saves.
>
> I'm only trying to follow the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brenton.

Is /boot a separate partition? 

Then it's not "kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86..."

it is

kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86...

and grub.conf is a conventional file. Boot properly (off a Live CD if you have 
to), edit the file as root, save like any other time. Then check if your 
kernel file on disk really is the name you have in grub.conf. It's highly 
likely it isn't and you just blindly copy-pasted an example. I don't think you 
have a 2.6.24 kernel on a recent box.

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