grub error 22

redduck666 · 04-23-2005, 12:30 PM

after following the gentoo handbook i installed i rebooted my computer. i get that error and i have no idea what to do.

my hd is partitioned in a way hda1 450 MB swap,hda2 5.5 gb where gentoo installation is and 32 gb empty partition. hda2 and hda3 are reiserfs partitions with 3.6 jurnal.

i think that grub is on my mbr because i did something like grub.install /dev/hda.

Code:

default 0
timeout 30
title gentoo by rd
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/boot/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hda2

the above is my /boot/grub/grub.conf

i do not have a separate partition mounted as /boot.

i used fdisk and made partition containing gentoo bootable.

"kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hda2" as a last line of grub.conf doesn't work either.

i have only on had disk.

any help appreciated

redduck666 · 04-23-2005, 01:45 PM

Code:

warty@ubuntu:~ $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40037760000 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77578 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1         873      439960+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda2             874       11531     5371632   83  Linux
/dev/hda3           11532       77578    33287688   83  Linux

i got the above in ubuntu live cd.

bigrigdriver · 04-23-2005, 04:57 PM

In your first post, you give this line:

kernel /boot/boot/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hda2

Now, if gentoo has a directory/subdirectory called /boot/boot, that should work. Otherwise, I suspect your error is in this line.

This is what my SuSE setup for me:

kernel (hd0,1)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 (and so on).

Look into your /boot directory, and use the name of the compressed kernel image you find there. If it's kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r6, then use that. If you find vmlinuz, then use that.

To my knowledge, grub is distribution-independent, and is probably set up the same, no matter which distro you're using.

So, try changing the syntax to the example I've supplied, and see if that works. Something like:

kernel (hd0,2)/kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hda2 (or use the vmlinuz keyword if you find that in your /boot directory).

redduck666 · 04-24-2005, 07:26 AM

i tried what you suggested and still can't get it to work

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i don't have anything called vmlinuz in /boot. i also tried making a separate partition for /boot and i still get the damn error 22.

any input welcome