grub > Error 15: File not found
 

I'm trying to add LFS to two other grub installs on my /menu.list, but
can't get grub to find /boot/lfskernel-2.6.27.4.

I'm trying to avoid overwriting my current MBR, and had no luck with
"setup (hd0,3)"

Is there any way to add LFS to a current MBR?

Hello,

I'm not yet acquainted with LFS (I'm beginning now to build my own LFS)

anyway are you sure the partition you gave to grub is correct?

I mean (hd0,3) refers to "/dev/hda4", from the error

it seems that you don't have the file "lfskernel-2.6.27.4" in the directory "boot" in your "/" partition (hd0,3).

Bye

David

The path is correct. Also, partition is correctly listed in fstab.

Ok,

can you try the following command to list the possible files hitting tab,

and post the result?

Tab doesn't 'complete' anything

So,

the

after the

command does it appear immediatly after you hit the tab button?

The boot directory you are using is the same used for booting other linux distro?

Could you please give the following commands and post the result?

When you are in front of the Grub prompt:
grub>
If you installed a /boot partition:

If you did not do a /boot partition:


Using the info found above:

then

and see if it gives you any options.

Hope this will help to find the problem.

Bye

David

By the way, what do you mean with

I think you want to add a new entry to a /boot/grub/menu.lst file that you are using to boot other linux distro in your machine.

How was created the boot directory you want to use? What files does it contain?

What is your running distro in your machine?

yes

A separate partition was created for LFS/ with it's own boot directory.
The partition is recognized (e.g., grub > root (hda0,3), but the boot partition is not. This appears to be the issue.

I would like to add LFS to my current /boot/grub/menu.lst with:

Can you list the content of your LFS boot directory ?

How did you create that?

It seems as if grub couldn't find there the right files (I mean stage1, stage2, and *stage1_5)

Here

in section 3.2 you can find some hints about what I mean.

Can you try the following command and see the result?

Of course the following is not the problem but in

after the 3 the bracket is not } but )

right...that was just a typo. I transferred everything out of /boot
into another folder /lfs, and had more success....at least it found the file. It also booted bzImage, copied from the /arch/boot directory. This presents a new bag of problems, however, in that it doesn't accept 'root=/dev/hda4', resulting in kernel panic
It lists available partitions only on sda

I'm glad to hear that.

Can you post the content of the menu.lst you're using and the content of the lfs directory?

Did you use any initrd with LFS in the menu.lst file?

The bzIMage you copied does it work correctly with grub in another boot sequence?

bzImage can replace the lfskernal file, with same result. I didn't try initrd since that seems to be used for opening packaged directory files (eg lfs.gz).

I had a kernel panic like yours when some months ago I used a kernel where the ext2 file system hadn't been compiled into the kernel image (it was compiled as a module, that's a case when you have to use a initial ramdisk file i.e. initrd.gz ).

I still don't understand why the system doesn't like your "boot" directory as it does with the "lfs" dir: do they have the same permission set (the same chmod)?

There's probably no need to install another grub if using a previous installation, and there was some confusion with having two boot directories. Also, it seems necessary to configure the kernel with ext2/ext3 support for devices to be recognized. Since I already have a correctly configured kernel (same version) on puppy, I decided to simply use that one. Presently, it gets stuck with error "Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (0,13)."
I've screwed around with an initrd file, booting from other partitions, etc., etc., but so far I've yet to uncover all the mysteries of grub.