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The Sunday 2006-11-26 at 14:01 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
> > Check that file, perhaps it is broken somehow. Usually, "/boot/initrd" is a
> > symlink, so check the link and the destination. Also, you can try to expand
> > it on a temporary dir, it is gzipped.
>
> Well, if it[1] was broken then I wouldn't be able to boot into the installed
> system from the Installation CD/DVD, and if it couldn't fit into memory then,
> again, it wouldn't fit when booting from the Installation CD.
I'm not sure of that.
> Something very weird going on here and I cannot figure it out.
>
> I used the Repair System from the Installation CD and when the automatic
> repair did nothing to fix the problem I used the Expert Mode and tried to
> Repair the Boot Loader. The interesting -- if you call this error message
> "interesting"! -- thing here is I got the following error message:
>
> grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,8) (hd0,8)
> Error 21 Selected disk does not exist
>
> but, of course, the disc does exist.
Have a look at the "/boot/grub/device.map" file. Mine has:
(hd1) /dev/hdb
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd3) /dev/hdd
(hd0) /dev/hda
> Grub is reading something from somewhere which has been corrupted but the
> Installation CD is not reading the same info and therefore boots into the
> existing system correctly. But what is grub reading and, more importantly, how
> to fix this is the 64,000 dollar question :-) (which I cannot answer :-( ).
>
> ([1] BTW, where is this gzipped copy located" I couldn't find it :-( .)
Copy? I don't understand.
But:
nimrodel:/boot # l initrd*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Sep 28 02:06 initrd ->
initrd-2.6.16.21-0.25-default
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2440205 Oct 5 21:42 initrd-2.6.16.21-0.25-cer
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2438012 Sep 28 02:06 initrd-2.6.16.21-0.25-default
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Oct 5 21:50 initrd-cer ->
initrd-2.6.16.21-0.25-cer
initrd is a symlink, and you should check it is pointing correctly. Also:
nimrodel:/boot # file initrd-2.6.16.21-0.25-default
initrd-2.6.16.21-0.25-default: gzip compressed data, from Unix, max
compression
it is a gziped file, so probably it can be checked. Or even easier,
rebuilt wit the command "mkinitrd". Do it, it won't hurt.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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