On Fri, 06 Dec 2002 19:50:01 -0500 "Bruce Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >From: Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: grub question - please help > >Date: 06 Dec 2002 18:33:09 -0600 > > > > "David" == David P James <David> writes: > > > > David> initrd /initrd.img-2.4.18-bf2.4 > > > > David> Come to think of it, the leading '/' should probably be > > David> dropped for both. > > > >The bf2.4 kernel does not use an initrd image unlike the other 2.4.18 > >kernel packages. So the poster does not need this. I too made the > >mistake of assuming there was an initrd file with bf2.4 recently. > Hmm., that's interesting. > > >The leading '/' on the vmlinuz kernel name was probably his problem. > OK, I edited the it to: > > kernel vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 root=/dev/hda4 ro > which results in: > Error 1: Filename must be either an absolute pathanme or blocklist > > On my system: > bash$ ls -l /boot | grep 'vmlinuz' > -rw-r--r-- root root <some other info> vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 > > I still can't solve this problem. > > > David> You can also try absolute paths rather than relative ones; > > David> eg: > > > > > > David> kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 root=/dev/hda4 ro > > David> initrd (hd0,1)/initrd.img-2.4.18-bf2.4 > > > >Yup, and going one step further, she/he could experiment and find the > >best option by getting to the grub prompt and using the 'find' command > >or otherwise interactively attempting to boot the system until it > >worked ;-) > > > >Cheers! > >Shyamal My other post must not have gotten through, here is my menu.lst <portions> # # new kernel # title = Debian/GNU Linux 2.4.19-new root = (hd0,11) kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-new noapic nosmp root=/dev/hda12 hdc=ide-scsi pci=biosirq # # windows 2000 # title = Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader = (hd0,0)+1 I am sure I said this before, did you try "/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 root=/dev/hda4 ro" ? HTH Shawn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
