How to fix /boot/grub/menu.lst - still

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 00:31 -0500, joe wrote:
> Sorry for not reporting back more promptly. 
> Needed to spend a bit of evening time with my bride ;)) 
> Regrettably, the 'mkinitrd initrd-win4lin ...' command 
> did not work (and I got called to dinner, so was not 
> able to report that result). 
> 
> I had simultaneously sent an inquiry with all the details 
> to support at win4lin.com so I'll be checking with them first 
> thing in the morning and I certainly will report whatever 
> I eventually find to be the solution. 
> 
> In fact, I definitely do plan to prepare a detailed "how-to" 
> covering all aspects of this installation as soon as I get 
> everything to work correctly. 
> 
> At least, I can confirm that I have gotten Mandriva 2006 
> (the "free" version) installed on two systems, so I offer 
> this comment as encouragement to Mike, the other Plugger 
> currently inquiring about this.  I wish I could offer 
> some help, but I have notes scattered all over dozens 
> of handwritten and printed pages as I've been working on 
> this for more than two weeks and still have a ways to go. 
> It just shouldn't be this difficult, but sadly, it seems 
> to be. Most of the obstacles turn out to be easy to fix, 
> but regrettably, I was unable to find a concise, complete, 
> step-by-step how-to that covered all (or even most) of 
> the bases.  What a shame. 
> 
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you should probably check to make sure that...

1 - there is an initrd for the win4lin in the /boot directory for
mandriva

2 - that the name of the initrd matches the name of the initrd called
for in the grub.lst

3 - that your win4lin is a properly installed kernel...

ls -ld /lib/modules/win4lin-2.6.12-12mdk # that it actually exists
and
rpm -qa|grep win4lin-2.6.12-12mdk # that the kernel actually exists

Craig