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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Error 15 trying to boot with GRUB

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] Error 15 trying to boot with GRUB
  • From: "S. Zachariah Sprackett" <zac [ at ] sprackett [ dot ] com>
  • Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:36:43 -0400
On 8/24/07, Brenda J. Butler <bjb [ at ] linuxbutler [ dot ] ca> wrote:
>
>
> 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.



In case it wasn't clear, you'll want to look in /mnt/boot as you're mounting
the partition which would normally be mounted at / under  /mnt so paths
become relative from there.

-z