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I am trying to install a RH7.2 on an IBM pc (300PL), and all seems fine, until the installation is complet, when the machine reboots, grub comes up and says:
Booting 'Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10)'
root (hd0,0)
filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda2
Error 15: File Not Found
Press any key to continue...
And funny enuf the file is not there, what is wrong ?
According to your grub info, there is a partition (hd0,0) which is hda1. It says hda2 is your root partition. It's looking for your kernel named vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 on hda1. Did you create a /boot partition? Is hda1, also known as (hd0,0), your swap partition? What file is missing?
hda1 is my /boot part, hda2 is my / part and then i have a swap part (hda3), all created during the setup.
The missing file is vmlinuz-2.4.7-10, a friend of mine told me that is should be located i /boot but there isn't any files named vmlinuz* on either of the partitions.
What puzzles me is that anaconda setup, doesn't report any problems during installation.
I can get a shell running using "linux rescue" from disc1, but it wont boot from the HD.
The linux rescue mode is a completely independent linux os. It's loaded from the cdrom and runs in memory and doesn't make use of anything on your hd. I believe it mounts your / partition under /mnt/sysimage. Do a ls /mnt/sysimage/boot and see if there are any files there, especially vmlinuz* named files. If there are no files listed at all, then the boot partition probably wasn't mounted. Try mounting it. mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt/sysimage/boot . If you still don't find any vmlinuz* named files, then try ls /mnt/sysimage and see if it was placed in the root / partition.
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