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,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> > >>> title=Gentoo 2.6.24-r8 > >>> > >>> root (hd0,0) > >>> kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.24-r8 root=/dev/sda3 > >>> video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> 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 -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Dr. Matthew R. Lee Instituto Biologia Marina 'Jurgen Winter' Universidad Austral de Chile Campus Isla Teja Valdivia [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: meiochile.matthewlee.org %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
