Re: grub question - please help

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "David" == David P James <David> writes:

    David> initrd /initrd.img-2.4.18-bf2.4

    David> Come to think of it, the leading '/' should probably be
    David> dropped for both.

The bf2.4 kernel does not use an initrd image unlike the other 2.4.18
kernel packages. So the poster does not need this. I too made the
mistake of assuming there was an initrd file with bf2.4 recently.

The leading '/' on the vmlinuz kernel name was probably his problem.


    David> You can also try absolute paths rather than relative ones;
    David> eg:


    David> kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz-2.4.18-bf2.4 root=/dev/hda4 ro
    David> initrd (hd0,1)/initrd.img-2.4.18-bf2.4

Yup, and going one step further, she/he could experiment and find the
best option by getting to the grub prompt and using the 'find' command
or otherwise interactively attempting to boot the system until it
worked ;-)

Cheers!
Shyamal