Re: Sarge installation problem
I'm going to have to agree with Maurits there... it looks like grub is
looking for the linux root partition on your windows partition. You'd
probably want to play around at the boot loader and see if you can't
dynamically figure out the problem.
>From the Grub loader, hit 'e' to edit the entry, and then 'e' again on
the line that reads "kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-386...". From there I
would change 'root=/dev/hda1' to say maybe 'root=/dev/hda2' or
'root=/dev/hda3' (might take you a few tries/failures). Then hit
'enter' (i think), and then back at the main screen you should be able
to hit 'b' in order to boot to your modified entry.
You could also boot to some sort of "live linux" cd, and type 'fdisk
-l /dev/hda' in order to list your partitions.... you'll probably see
1 or 2 linux partitions, and a Windows partition. Safe assumption would
be that the largest linux partition is what you'd want to use at the
'root=' line in grub.
Once you figure out which one its suppose to be using for "root=", then
you'd need to change your '/boot/grub/menu.lst' (thats an 'L', not a
one)
good luck
bj
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 17:38 -0500, 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?
>
>
>
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