Will,
First, rootnoverify is a grub command that you give at the grub
command line - I don't think it goes in menu.lst as a config
file entry. Shorten it to root (hd0, 1) and see if it works.
Failing that ...
Boot with a live cd (like Knoppix), mount your hard drive on
/mnt with 'mount /dev/hda2 /mnt'
and look in /mnt/ for the initrd and vmlinuz files.
If there aren't any, then look in /boot.
If there are some there, then make symbolic links from /mnt to /mnt/boot
like so:
cd /mnt
ln -s boot/initrd.gz initrd.gz
ln -s boot/vmlinuz vmlinuz
The files in boot might have longer names with version numbers embedded. If
that's the case, then the commands become something like:
cd /mnt
ln -s boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686 initrd.gz
ln -s boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 vmlinuz
The object: to have "link" entries in /mnt called initrd.gz and vmlinuz
and that point to /mnt/boot/initrd-2.6.18-4-686 and
/mnt/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686, respectively.
Here's a directory listing from my machine:
bjb@spidy:/srv/bjb.work/fidus/sensilaser$ ls -la /init* /vm*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Aug 23 18:35 /initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-1-686
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Jun 26 09:11 /initrd.img.old -> boot/initrd.img-2.6.21-1-686
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Aug 23 18:35 /vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-1-686
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Jun 26 09:11 /vmlinuz.old -> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.21-1-686
You _don't_ want the /mnt part of the name to show in the link.
It won't be there when you boot.
You can try to find the initrd.gz and vmlinuz files from the grub command
line - just before it tries to boot into the kernel, press a key to get
the grub command line. Then give the commands
root (hd0, 1)
find /vmlinuz
find /boot/vmlinuz
find /initrd.gz
find /boot/initrd.gz
and see if grub can find those files. This isn't that much use for your
situation - you already know what partition you're installed on - but
might be a little quicker to find that the files are actually in /boot
than finding a Knoppix CD.
Chances are, the files in /boot have version numbers embedded in them
and the above won't find them.
If you still have trouble, please email again. There are other
things you could do. For instance, use path of /boot/vmlinuz and
/boot/initrd.gz (use the full names or make links) in menu.lst...
but it's easier to help if we have more specific info on your
progress.
You sound like you've found the manuals already, but in case you
haven't I've been looking up all this stuff in
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html
to compose this email.
cheerio,
bjb
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 02:26:14PM -0400, WH wrote:
> Hi,
> I have done a full install of puppy Linux and am having the following issues when trying to boot from GRUB.
>
> I keep getting error 15 file not found
>
> I have the following partition setup and have modified the menu.lst as follows.
>
> hda1 fat32
> hda2 ext2
> hda3 linux swap
> hda4 fat32 shared
>
> My modifications to the menu.lst are as follows:
>
> title linux (on /dev/hda2)
> rootnoverify (hd0, 1)
> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 loglevel=3 PMEDIA=idehd
> initrd /initrd.gz
>
> The funny thing is I cannot locate the initrd.gz file anywhere..........where should it be located, I thought it would be where vmlinuz file is.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.....as I am a newbie to linux.
>
> Thanks
> Will
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