Re: grub question - please help

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@oz.net>]

Try line 7 without the leading /:

kernel vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 root=/dev/hda4 ro

The vmlinuz in / is just a symlink to the real file and is not needed.

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 12:47:48AM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> I'm having a difficult time loading the linux partition in grub. I'm going 
> to do the best that I can to explain what I understand and what I don't. 
> I'm currenty using 2.4.-18-bf2.4 kernel. I am also using a floppy to test 
> this. I have NOT loaded this into the MBR. Instead, the Lilo is in the MBR.
> 
> My partition consits of:
> hd0,0   /dev/hda1    Windows    NTFS
> hd0,1   /dev/hda2    boot            ext2
> hd0,2.  /dev/hda3    Swap           Swap
> hd0,3   /dev/hda4    Linux root     ext3
> 
> Now, I got the Windows part down but I cannot get the linux part. I'm going 
> to add line numbers to make this easier to read. Here's what I have so far:
> 1      title Linux
> 2      # load the boot partition to Grub
> 3      root (hd0,1)
> 4      load the kernel
> 5      kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 ro
> 6      # this DOES NOT WORK
> 7      # kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 root=/dev/hda4 ro
> 
> Line 3 loads the boot partition into GRUB's root partition. In the boot 
> partition there is NO kernel vmlinuz. There is ONLY vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4. 
> For ex:
> bash$ ls -l /boot | grep 'vmlinuz'
> -rw-r--r--  1   root    root   <not important>  vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4
> 
> File vmlinuz exists at the Linux root partition. I did NOT load hd0,3 into 
> Grub's root.
> bash$ ls -l / | grep 'vmlinuz'
> lrwxrwxrwx  1   root    root   <not important>  
> vmlinuz->/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4
> 
> If vmlinuz doesn't exist in the boot partition, why does that work? When I 
> run this, it actually is executed but runs the WRONG kernel. I cannot start 
> X because kernel 2.4.-18-3 is running instead of 2.4.18-bf2.4. When I edit 
> line 5 to line 7, Grub states that the file cannot be found. Can someone 
> please help me?
> 
> bp