Subject: Re: kernel will not boot ..please help
From: Tim Jordan (timothy_jordan@labor.state.ak.us)
Date: Thu Dec 11 2003 - 09:35:42 AKST
> > Sounds like grub can't find your kernel, think I'd recheck grub.conf.
> > Or is your boot sector active, hda1 should have an asteric under 'boot'
> > statement. I'd check it with fdisk /dev/hda under the (p)rint command.
The grub.conf is correct; although, I did post an error in my original
post:
> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3
It really reads:
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=dev/hda4
The boot flag is active on hda1.
Tim
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 09:23, minion wrote:
> Sounds like grub can't find your kernel, think I'd recheck grub.conf.
> Or is your boot sector active, hda1 should have an asteric under 'boot'
> statement. I'd check it with fdisk /dev/hda under the (p)rint command.
>
> Tim Jordan wrote:
>
> >Problem:
> > The kernel will not boot. Grub starts then the PC reboots immediately.
> >
> >I have seem to have hit a wall with my latest gentoo install. I have
> >built Gentoo two times previously on this box with different sources.
> >This install I use gentoo-sources and I have compiled two times (1)
> >genkernel (2) manual kernel build. Both build end up the same.
> >
> > I'm really hoping someone can lend some insight to ease my growing
> >frustration.
> >
> > Please......
> > Tim
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dell GX-240
> > P4 1.7Ghz, 1Gb RAM
> >
> >
> > Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > hda1 Boot Primary Linux ext2 41.13
> > hda2 Primary Linux 518.20
> > hda4 Primary Linux ReiserFS 12074.72
> > hda3 Primary W95 FAT32 (LBA) 36701.20
> > Unusable 30713.20
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > /boot/grub/grub.conf
> > default 0
> > timeout 30
> > splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> > title=Linux Kernel 2.4.20 gentoo sources
> > root (hd0,0)
> > kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3
> >
> >
> > root@ttyp1[knoppix]# ls -l mnt/hda1
> > total 1075
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1 Dec 10 13:34 boot -> .
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1081336 Dec 10 16:44 bzImage
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Dec 10 17:17 grub
> > drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Dec 10 12:16 lost+found
> >
> >
> >
> > root@ttyp1[knoppix]# ls -l mnt/hda4
> > total 49
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2864 Dec 10 17:12 bin
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Dec 10 12:21 boot
> > drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 30856 Sep 12 08:03 dev
> > drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 2240 Dec 10 17:55 etc
> > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 120 Dec 10 17:02 home
> > drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 3112 Dec 10 16:46 lib
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Dec 10 15:31 linux -> /usr/src/linux
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 112 Sep 12 08:14 opt
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Sep 11 05:52 proc
> > drwx------ 3 root root 128 Dec 10 17:20 root
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 3112 Dec 10 17:12 sbin
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Dec 10 15:31 src -> /usr/src/
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 96 Dec 10 13:37 stage3
> > drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 72 Dec 10 17:12 tmp
> > drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 424 Dec 10 13:39 usr
> > drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 336 Dec 10 16:58 var
> >
> >
> >
> > root@ttyp1[hda4]# ls -l usr/src/linux
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Dec 10 15:20 usr/src/linux ->
> >linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r9
> >
> > /etc/fstab:
> >
> > /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
> > /dev/hda4 / reiserfs noatime,notail 0 1
> > /dev/hda2 swap swap sw 0 0
> > /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0
> >
> > none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> >
> > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> >
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