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? -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 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
