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irony
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 Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 6:54 pm Post subject: grub error, strange characters |
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I've been reinstalling gentoo and I've run into a bit of problem on first boot.
After hardware/bios messages, Grub starts, and for a few moments (30s or so), there is only a blinking cursor in the top left of the screen, then comes up with the following error:
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Booting 'Gentoo'
root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage root=/dev/sda2
Error 15: File not found
Press any key to continue...
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If I do press a key, I get the grub load screen, but with regular dotted vertical lines, like messed up input to the screen. Additionally, in the error message, the parentheses are messed up. You can see the right one in all of them, but other than that it's kind of static-y, but just those characters.
I'm using the current (non-ARCH="~x86") grub, gentoo-dev-sources/kernel-2.6.1-r1 (no framebuffer options). It's a fresh install.
Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm going to try a 2.4 kernel if this doesn't work, and I have a spare video card I can try, but everything works fine off of the install cd, so I don't think hardware is the problem.
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tmr777
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| Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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Seems to be finding the root partition OK, but fails looking for the kernel. Three things I can think of:
1. Is there a kernel really named bzImage in the boot partition? I know genkernel uses a different naming convention
2. Is there an initrd file specified in the grub.conf that may not have been copied over?
3. Is there a recursive sym link to boot in the boot directory. I've had trouble with grub when this did not exist:
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> mount /boot
> cd /boot
> ln -s . boot
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If not, a listing of your boot dir and grub.conf would be helpful.
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irony
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Problem was a missing symlink from /boot/grub to /boot. Solved by changing all links from /boot/grub to /grub.
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