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List:       opensuse
Subject:    [opensuse] Re: [Unsuccessful installation of operating system]
From:       Stan Goodman <stan.goodman () hashkedim ! com>
Date:       2010-09-23 14:03:30
Message-ID: 201009231603.30572.stan.goodman () hashkedim ! com
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On Wed, 22Sep 2010 at 18:15:43 -0400, Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> 
wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > Stan Goodman wrote:

> > >     15 : File not found
> > >     This error is returned if the specified file name cannot be
>  > > found, but everything else (like the disk/partition info) is OK.

> >    Probably there is an error in the menu.lst file.

I did the following in a live Fedora.

> Reaching the grub menu only to get an error like this means there is
> some type of error which usually can be worked around by using the Grub
> command shell. When the menu appears, escape out of the graphical menu
> first, then exit the text menu to reach the command prompt in the
> manner shown to you below the entries the text menu is showing. You'll
> then be greeted by a Grub prompt:
>
> grub>
>
> Try the following:
>
> grub> root (hd1,5)
>
> grub> kernel /boot/vmlinux root=/dev/sdb6 noresume splash=verbose
> vga=791

This produces Error 15: File not found

> grub> initrd /boot/initrd

Unsurprisingly therefore, this gets Error 27:Unrecognized command

> grub> boot
>
> If that doesn't get you booted, try substituting from your best
> recollection whatever is correct for the various (xx#,#) parameters and
> kernel parameters.
>
> If still no go, you can get clues via Grub's command line completion,
> allowing it to show you what kernel and/or initrd(s) it can find. Start
> thus:
>
> grub> find /boot/grub/stage1

     (hd0,5)
     (hd1,5)
as expected.

> which will show whatever locations it can find it, which will be
> locations where menu.lst should be, and which should be the child of
> any /boot containing installed kernels and initrds. Maybe the HD on
> which SUSE is actually located for some reason is not coming up as
> sdb6/(hd1,5). If stage 1 is where you expect it, try:
>
> grub> kernel /boot/vmli<tab>

That got only the usual action of the Tab key, it didn't try to 
autocomplete anything.

> and report back what happens if from the above you can't get any SUSE
> booted.

Reported.
-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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