Grub error 15

black dog · n00b Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 16

Feeling very pleased with myself, I've just rebooted after install.

I get this at the grub splash screen:

Error 15: File not found
Press any key to continue...

The problem being, it can't find the initrd for the kernel.

I can't find my way to the hard drive's /boot dir rather than the live cd's /boot dir to see what's in there. (If anything.......).

Help on that appreciated- and if indeed the damned kernel has gone awol (or anything else nasty), I'd really appreciate advice on how to remedy this, short of starting again.
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tln · Veteran Joined: 24 Sep 2003 Posts: 1502

Boot the Livecd, then first mount your main Gentoo partition in /mnt/gentoo like normal, and then boot (if you have it separately). Then just

black dog · n00b Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 16

Thanks very much.

However, there appears to be nothing in my /boot dir.

Shouldn't there be a initrd-2.6.7-gentoo-r11 file?

I used genkernel to make a kernel, there were no errors.

I get no other errors at grub (then again, I didn't get far enough!).

Any advice appreciated, this is my 3rd go at installing, and although I've read the handbook 5 times, I still haven't cracked it:)
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tln · Veteran Joined: 24 Sep 2003 Posts: 1502

Did you create a separate partition for /boot? In that case, you need to mount it first. If you already have it mounted, and there's still not anything in /boot, I'm afraid you'll have to redo the steps where you install your kernel and grub.

robet · Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 11:17 pm Post subject:

Post your /boot/grub/grub.conf and /etc/fstab... check them out from the LiveCD or Knoppix.
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Deathwing00 · Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 10:46 am Post subject:

Duplicate of http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=122656