grub can't boot mandrake

jaybee · 09-22-2004, 03:05 PM

Hi, I wasn't sure whether to post this in fedora or mandrake forum...I was using mdk 10 official quite happily until installing fedora core2 alongside it...now I can't boot mdk from grub. After selecting the option it looks like things are going OK 'Uncompressing kernel' etc then there is an error about the initrd.img followed by 'Kernel panic, no image found. Try passing init= to the kernel...'

this is my grub.conf:

Code:

#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
#          root (hd0,2)
#          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
#          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda3
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.8-1.521)
	root (hd0,2)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.521 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.8-1.521.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
	root (hd0,2)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title windows
	root (hd0,0)
	chainloader +1
title mdk10
	root (hd0,4)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
	initrd /boot/initrd.img

(I couldn't boot windows either, until changing disk access in BIOS to LBA...)

Thanks,

aus9 · 09-23-2004, 07:51 AM

I gather mdk 10 starts to load and then you get the error? in which case b4 trying to load as is you have 2 options either use a rescue cd or the other linux with a manual mount of your mdk then you can go into /boot and look for initrd files and see if they are still there OR

at boot instead of making a selection press the C for command mode for grub
type
root (hd0,4)
find /boot/. AND PRESS THE TAB key to get a list of files in /boot. Do you remember that you really needed initrd to enable some hardware if you can't find one? Or do you find one and is it how your above is posted?.

If you don't need initrd file go back to grub menu then press E for edit and arrow down to the initrd line and delete it the B for boot

barrys · 09-23-2004, 08:46 AM

Could be like susi9.1 It loads directly on the Mandrake and loses windoze. I have had to reinstall mandrake to recover the windoze. (not on my machine)

I would suggest trying loading fedora frist then Mandrake afterwards if you have the time, I would be interested in the result.

nafan · 09-23-2004, 02:01 PM

Can you boot into fedora and give us the contents the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda ? It may be that your mandrake entry is pointing to the wrong partition.