How to fix /boot/grub/menu.lst
joe
joe at tlnf.com
Mon Jan 2 17:09:48 MST 2006
Can someone please tell me why the /boot/grub/menu.lst entry
shown here and at the bottom of this message works for everything
except for booting the new Win4Lin kernel that I just installed?
The location of the kernel is correct as shown, but when I try
to boot with it, I get the response "file not found."
# inserted the next lines 0512-30 ======= THIS DOES NOT WORK
title Mandriva Win4Lin test at hda6 - 2.6.12-12
kernel (hd0,5)/boot/win4lin-2.6.12-12mdk root=/dev/hda6
initrd (hd0,5)/boot/win4lin-2.6.12-12mdk.img
=========
$ df (looks like this):
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 10080488 3412732 6155688 36% /
tmpfs 257924 0 257924 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda3 4032124 2426284 1401012 64% /home
=========
$ ls -ltrG /mnt (looks like this):
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4096 2004-10-10 14:02 hda1 mepis /
drwxr-xr-x 5 root 4096 2004-10-13 17:14 hda3 mepis /home
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4096 2004-10-09 15:45 hda5 xandros
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4096 2004-10-09 15:45 hda6 mandriva /
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4096 2004-10-09 15:45 hda7 mandriva /home
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4096 2004-10-10 13:20 temp
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4096 2004-10-09 15:45 hda8 not in use
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4096 2004-10-09 15:45 hda9 not in use
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4096 2005-03-25 17:55 floppy
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4096 2004-10-10 14:10 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4096 2004-10-10 14:10 cdrom1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4096 2004-10-16 10:43 camera
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4096 2004-11-04 09:10 sda1 usb for camera
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4096 2004-10-12 16:06 hdb7 second HD
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4096 2004-10-12 16:06 hdb5 second HD
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4096 2004-10-12 16:06 hdb1 second HD
==========
$ cd /boot
$ ls -ltrG (looks like this):
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 16208 2004-03-17 20:44 mepis.bmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 67648 2004-05-25 09:46 memtest86.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 45584 2004-05-26 14:40 config-2.6.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1313776 2004-05-26 14:58 vmlinuz-2.6.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 561908 2004-05-26 14:58 System.map-2.6.5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 38173 2004-05-26 15:46 config-2.4.26
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1052237 2004-05-26 15:59 vmlinuz-2.4.26
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 411515 2004-05-26 15:59 System.map-2.4.26
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 4096 2005-12-30 19:28 grub
==========
$ cat /boot/grub/menu.lst (looks like this):
default saved
timeout 15
color cyan/blue white/blue
foreground ffffff
background 2f5178
# splashimage /boot/grub/mepis.xpm.gz
# inserted the next lines 0512-30 ======= THIS DOES NOT WORK
title Mandriva Win4Lin test at hda6 - 2.6.12-12
kernel (hd0,5)/boot/win4lin-2.6.12-12mdk root=/dev/hda6
initrd (hd0,5)/boot/win4lin-2.6.12-12mdk.img
# inserted the next lines 0512-28 ======= THIS WORKS
title Mandriva at hda6 - 2.6.12-12
kernel (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-12mdk root=/dev/hda6
initrd (hd0,5)/boot/initrd-2.6.12-12mdk.img
title MEPIS at hda1, kernel 2.6.5 ======= THIS WORKS
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5 root=/dev/hda1 nomce psmouse.proto=imps vga=788
savedefault
title MEPIS at hda1, kernel 2.4.26 ======= THIS WORKS
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.26 root=/dev/hda1 nomce vga=788 hdc=ide-scsi
hdd=ide-scsi
savedefault
title MEMTEST
kernel /boot/memtest86.bin
# added the next two lines 0410-09 - rev 14, 18 ======= THIS WORKS
title Xandros
kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd-2.4.24-x1.gz
title Use a qwerty keyboard with GRUB === IS ALL THE STUFF BELOW NECESSARY?
setkey y y
setkey Y Y
setkey q q
setkey Q Q
======= several dozen more 'setkey' entries follow this =======
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