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black dog n00b
Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 16
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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:41 pm Post subject: Grub error 15 |
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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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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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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
Code: | chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash && env-update |
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black dog n00b
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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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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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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
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robet l33t
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Deathwing00 Bodhisattva
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