During installation of Sabayon 3.25,the GRUB didn't have an entry for Mandriva 07,therefore,I added an entry labeled Mandriva Linux 2007 and pointed it to root partition for Mandriva namely sda5(partition 5,HDD 0) for Sabayon.But Mandriva refuses to boot with the error message given below and tells me to press any key.When I press a key,it sends me back to GRUB.FYI,my home partition(sda7 partition 7,HDD 0) is separate from my root partition in Mandriva.
All partitions are logical. On the advice of a friend who knows something about Gentoo and Sabayon,I modified the entry for Mandriva in /boot/grub/menu.lst as follows: title 'Mandriva Linux 2007' root(hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 initrd /boot/initrd.gz
Presently,the error message is:(/*....*/ are comments and not part of the error message)
Booting 'Mandriva Linux 2007' root(hd0,4)/*Since I have only 1 HDD,hd0 and since Mandriva root is in hda5,partition number-1=4*/ Filesystem type is ext2fs,partition type 0x83/*But I have all linux partitions as ext3fs!*/ kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 /*I tried sda5 too,with and without(w/o) ro and hda5 with and w/o ro*/ [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1b68d6] /*All greek and latin to me*/ initrd /boot/initrd.gz
Error 15:File not found.
Press any key to continue..._ /*When any key is pressed,it sends me back to the GRUB menu*/ Please Help.
Regards, Easwar
On 4/22/07, Easwar Hariharan meindian523@gmail.com wrote:
title 'Mandriva Linux 2007' root(hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 initrd /boot/initrd.gz
Presently,the error message is:(/*....*/ are comments and not part of the error message)
Booting 'Mandriva Linux 2007' root(hd0,4)/*Since I have only 1 HDD,hd0 and since Mandriva root is in hda5,partition number-1=4*/ Filesystem type is ext2fs,partition type 0x83/*But I have all linux partitions as ext3fs!*/ kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 /*I tried sda5 too,with and without(w/o) ro and hda5 with and w/o ro*/ [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1b68d6] /*All greek and latin to me*/ initrd /boot/initrd.gz
Error 15:File not found.
Press any key to continue..._ /*When any key is pressed,it sends me back to the GRUB menu*/
Sabayon CD/DVD should be live CD/DVD so boot from it and browse the /boot directory of the mandriva and check the names of the files, if vmlinuz is there. And also check if initrd.gz is there, just to make sure. Also, make sure once again if the partition is sda5 only.
On Sunday 22 April 2007 10:09, Easwar Hariharan wrote:
ro*/ [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1b68d6] /*All greek and latin to me*/ initrd /boot/initrd.gz
Error 15:File not found.
File not found means /boot/initrd.gz is not is not at the location /boot or is called something else. create a symlink from /boot/initrd.gz to your real initrd, probably in /initrd/ or maybe even in /
Easwar Hariharan wrote:
On the advice of a friend who knows something about Gentoo and Sabayon,I modified the entry for Mandriva in /boot/grub/menu.lst as follows: title 'Mandriva Linux 2007' root(hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 initrd /boot/initrd.gz
Whenever you install a new system as the additional one, the new system may not add entries for the existing one. The shortest step is to copy and paste the *relevant* entries from the /boot/grub/menu.lst of the older system to the menu.lst of the new system. This is assuming that both use GRUB as their boot loader.
If I recollect correctly, then Mandriva's favourite boot loader is LILO and not GRUB. They don't accomodate each other, though on the net some experts claim to have done it.
The easier way out is to load the Mandriva boot CD and re-install the boot loader as GRUB. Then add relevant entries of Sabayon's menu.lst into the new menu.lst of Mandriva.
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