Help, system won't boot

jaredvolkl · n00b Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Posts: 17 Location: Plymouth, MN

I got my system all set up a week ago with a Stage 1 install (this my 5th time or so doing an install, so I know what I'm doing). I had left the laptop hooked up to my router for awhile while I was getting all my programs setup and I just ssh'ed into it to get things set up. Well, once I had everything the way I wanted, I shut it down, and brought it to my room. I just let it sit there for a few days because I didn't need it. Then the other day I turned it on and it won't boot!

I get a message during boot that says:

Failed to open the directory /dev/hda2: No such file or directory

Now I know the partition is there. I can boot a LiveCD, see it, mount it, and even chroot into it. I tried running fsck.resierfs on the partition once I chroot'ed into and that didn't seem to find any problems. I don't know what could have happened.

koroumel · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 8:26 am Post subject:

Can you please post you Lilo/Grub config file? Also, please post the partition table when you do fdisk from the live cd.
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jaredvolkl · n00b Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Posts: 17 Location: Plymouth, MN

just a really basic grub config:

title Gentoo-2.6.9-r1
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda2 vga=792

And here's my partition scheme:

/dev/hda1 swap
/dev/hda2 root (contains everything including home, root, and boot)

merror · n00b Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Posts: 34 Location: switzerland

Hi

are you sure you need to give the /boot/ folder in grub?

mine looks just like this

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title GNU/Linux 2.6.9-r1 no fb
root (hd0,0)
kernel /bzImage root=/dev/hda3
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and it works.

merror

b-llwyd · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 7:21 am Post subject:

I think you need it to be like this -

title Gentoo-2.6.9-r1
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda2 vga=792

root (hd0,1) would be referring to your / partition, and i dont think you can access the kernel from there (even if you write /boot/kernel-blah-blah), as grub cant mount partitions for you.

I might be wrong about this, please try

koroumel · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:34 pm Post subject:

I would go for b-llwyd, his post looks right, unless you've set up you grub in (hd0,1)!
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theBlackDragon · l33t Joined: 23 Nov 2002 Posts: 768 Location: Belgium

I'm not sure, but it could also be this problem that I and some others encountered a couple of days ago.

[EDIT]Fixed dumb mixup :oops:

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jaredvolkl · n00b Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Posts: 17 Location: Plymouth, MN

The problem isn't my kernel guys. Grub finds the kernel just fine and boots it to start out ok.

Just for kicks I tried your changes. No good. b-llwyd, grub IS on hd0,1 (aka hda2). Like I said, this configuration was working. I had booted off it previously just fine. I've also tried recompiling my kernel to no avail.

blackdragon: that link points to fvwm. I don't even use it. I use Gnome and well, a window manager does me no good if I can't even get past boot.

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jaredvolkl · n00b Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Posts: 17 Location: Plymouth, MN

jaredvolkl · n00b Joined: 09 Mar 2004 Posts: 17 Location: Plymouth, MN

Well what do ya know. It worked! My system is booting as I type this. Any word on if this is being fixed?