Re: Sarge installation problem

[Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net>]

Jacques d'Aragon wrote:
> The last installation I did of Debian, using a "Sarge" cd and 
> downloading the necessary stuff from the Internet as it was required 
> went amazingly well (I am _very_ impressed by Debian). Now if I could 
> only get past the following hurdle: when re-starting, Grub comes up, 
> allows booting Windows (XP) but if I choose Linux I get this:
> - Booting `Debian Gnu/Linux, kernel 2.4.18-386`
> - root (hd0,0)
> - Filesystem type is fat, partition type 0xb
> - kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro
> - Error 15: File not found
> - Press any key...
>
> Next, since Grub allows editing the commands it is about to execute, I 
> looked and saw:
> - root (hd0,0)
> - kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro
> - initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-386
> - savedefault
>
> Using SimpleMepis (also Debian based), I see that the files vmlinuz- and 
> initrd.img do exist.
> So why the error 15?

I don't know why you're getting that error, but have you tried 
installing the 2.6 kernel?  When I used the RC2 installer, I ran 
"linux26" at the CD's boot prompt, that way it used 2.6 all the way and 
installed it to the hard disk too.  I didn't have any problems.