Hello, I downloaded O&O defrag for Linux, because I wanted to beta test it. Well, I did, and it had an error the first time I ran it. So it told me to run efs2sck or some program like that, which I did. Well, apparently I didn't run it in repair mode, only scan mode. So, my boot partition was corrupted and now I can't boot to Fedora. I've tried reinstalling Fedora (no really reinstalling, just the bootloader.) I run the install program, tell it to upgrade, and it tries to install and upgrade my system. Being already upgraded, and the packages I'm trying to upgrade to are already there, it finishes quickly. Well, after it's done, it says something like, "Since packages were not modified the bootloader will not be reinstalled." I think this is crap. Lol, not here to gripe about it though. Anyway, I need the initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img file from Fedora Core 3 so I can get it to boot. I already took the vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 from the install CD, but I can't seem to find the other one I'm looking for. If anyone could tell me where it is on the CD, or send the image to me, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

Initrd, bzImage and vmlinuz are kernel images. They are created when you compile your kernel (or use the default one) and usually placed at /boot partition. You then tell the boot loader where those images are in order to boot Linux. If the boot loader can't find those images (thus not booting) you either have specified a wrong path or they were really deleted.

The very best (and easiest) way would be to reinstall the hole system. There might be possible, however, to use a liveCD (as Knoppix), boot from it, chroot your /boot partition and recompile the kernel, finishing updating/reinstalling grub or lilo or whatever boot loader you use.

If you've compiled the kernel yourself, you might have a copy of those images at /usr/src/linux/*. Simply copy them over to your /boot.

And a side note: you don't need to defrag a Linux partition... and if you are going to try beta software to see how it goes, either make a separated partition for /boot and /home so you can backup your data.

I knew that those files are created when you compile your kernel. The problem I'm having is this. My boot partition was completely messed up, and when I did a "ls" on /boot it showed some weird file name. I used the recovery and it created a "lost+found" directory. i deleted that, because all of the files were empty, and installed grub on my windows partition. Bad idea, cuz I thought I'd erased it. But then I used the Recovery Console on the Windows install CD and it worked out. So my Fedora install is dormant on my 10gig HD. I have Windows set up to read ext2 filesystems, and my boot partition is ext2. But I'm pretty sure my Fedora other partition is Reiser so I can't read that. I have no way to access floppy drive, so I can't copy my images that way. I've tried everything I know, and I have an idea but it requires initrd. I've tried to recompile my kernel already on Knoppix but it didn't work. That was before I posted. Hope this clears things up.