I installed yesterday's kernel update for RH 7.3, and then my Sony
notebook wouldn't reboot. After various futzing, I can get it up
manually, but not with my grub.conf.
Manually I can get it to boot this way:
- At grub screen hit "c" for command line
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-26.7.x root=/dev/hda5 ro vga=791
grub> boot
and it works.
But the following /boot/grub/grub.conf (without the two-space indent)
fails when kernel can't find init:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda5
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=2
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-26.7.xdebug)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-26.7.xdebug root=/dev/hda5 ro vga=791
# kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-26.7.xdebug ro root=/dev/hda5 vga=773
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-26.7.xdebug.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-26.7.x)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-26.7.x root=/dev/hda5 ro vga=791
# kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-26.7.x ro root=/dev/hda5 vga=773
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-26.7.x.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.19)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.19 root=/dev/hda5 ro vga=791
# kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.19 ro root=/dev/hda5 vga=773
initrd /initrd-2.4.19.img
Note that the "root=/dev/hda5 ro vga=791" was copied and pasted from
/var/log/dmesg after a successful manual boot. The last kernel, the
2.4.19, is one that I compiled myself awhile back, and it won't boot
either from this grub file. None of these three kernels will boot
from this grub.conf.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
-kb, the Kent who even tried installing lilo, and it didn't work
either.
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