Error with Kernel from X86 LiveCD

Elephant_hog · Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject: Error with Kernel from X86 LiveCD

I ame installing a X86 2006.0 version of gentoo on a PIII 1gig computer. Using the live cd I went through setup using the diolog based installer because the GTX+ would not start. It finished installing and I rebooted, when it went to boot up it came up with this error

Booting 'Gentoo Linux'

root (hd1,0)
Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xc
kernel /kernel genkernel x86 2 6 15 gentoo r5 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hdc3

Error 15: File not found

Press any key to continue

There were some weird signs that look like video glitches in between all of the space here (/kernel genkernel x86 2 6 15 gentoo r5) and three different signs after (Press any key to continue)

So I press enter...

It brings me to a screen with words and vertical white dots in lines (video glitch i presume) It has gentoo linux selected and a few instructions (up down arrows... to select,,, c for command line) I used the kernel that the live cd created for my system(fastest)

If I push enter to use the Gentoo Linux it goes back to the previos screen but this time it has those vertical white dots...

Maybe I need to make a new kernel I don't know?-I also forget how to make a new kernel...

Thanks in advance
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Motherboard = GA-K8NS
Chipset = nForce3 250
Processor = Socket 754 AMD64 3000+
Video Card = AGP8X Nvidia GeForce5200
RAM = 512MB DDR400

dylnuge · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 May 2006 Posts: 106

Look up. There is a post entitled Most Common Errors with GRUB. It will tell you exactly what to do.

EDIT: Sorry, it is called Grub Error Collection [Part 5]

Here is what you need:

Elephant_hog · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 2:01 am Post subject:

So are you saying that I need to check and see if my kernel is in that directory (I let the live cd install it so it should be there) and if it is to mount my boot directory? (I did this on a previos installation of gentoo 2004.3 AMD64)
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Motherboard = GA-K8NS
Chipset = nForce3 250
Processor = Socket 754 AMD64 3000+
Video Card = AGP8X Nvidia GeForce5200
RAM = 512MB DDR400

cyrillic

Elephant_hog · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 2:21 am Post subject:

Hmm that shouldn't be the case... I used the installers (i think prefered) or nessisary config (I let it do it itself)

Here it is:

cyrillic · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 2:38 am Post subject:

What happened is :
When you told the BIOS to boot from /dev/hdc instead of /dev/hda, this reversed the drives in GRUB too.

Now (hd1,0) = /dev/hda1 and (hd0,0) = /dev/hdc1 so you need to adjust your grub.conf accordingly.

Elephant_hog · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 5:04 am Post subject:

Ok... could you please give me a detailed explanation on the files to edit and how to edit them... I ame not very experienced with these things.
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Motherboard = GA-K8NS
Chipset = nForce3 250
Processor = Socket 754 AMD64 3000+
Video Card = AGP8X Nvidia GeForce5200
RAM = 512MB DDR400

cyrillic · Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 5:02 pm Post subject:

The file you want to edit is /boot/grub/grub.conf

If you post the file, I can give you more detailed help, but in general, you want to change all occurences of (hd1 to (hd0 and all occurences of (hd0 to (hd1

Elephant_hog · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 12:24 am Post subject:

Here is the output from nano of my grub.conf

Elephant_hog · Posted: Tue May 09, 2006 12:43 am Post subject:

I changed the grub.conf file to this...