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broi

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From: Bosnia & Herzegovina

Registered: 2011-12-10

Posts: 127

[SOLVED]Kernel won't boot after replacing grub-gfx with grub

I tried to install grub-gfx over grub in order to get graphical boot, yes I followed wiki how to do it at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub-gfx (even if it's out of date but I didnt care) but ofc something went wrong: I couldn't select whether I want to boot WinXP or Arch, it booted me directly in Arch without GRUB Menu appear as It appeared with "classic" grub, so I just wanted classic one back.

I installed classic grub (and removed grub-gfx) and replaced current menu.lst with backuped one, but now I cant boot:

  Booting 'Arch Linux [/boot/vmlinuz-linux]'

root    (hd0,4)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda3 ro
    [Linux-bzimage, setup=0x1200, size=0x2bb9201
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
    [Linux-initrd 0 0x1Fab90000, 0x526184 bytes]
Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok

Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done
Booting the kernel.
:: starting udevd...
done.
:: Running Hook [udev]
:: Triggering uevents...done.
:: mounting '/dev/sda3' on real root
ERROR: Boot device mounted successfully, but /sbin/init does not exists.
Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck.
sh: can't access tty: job control turned off.
[rootfs /]: _

EDIT: I checked where is my root partition using GParted and I realized that when I installed GRUB classic it automaticaly changed the line where is pointed root partition and it was wrong one (kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda3 ro) It had to be root=/dev/sda2 and it now boots without problem!

Last edited by broi (2012-05-31 11:32:52)

VOT Productions

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Registered: 2011-10-22

Posts: 47

Re: [SOLVED]Kernel won't boot after replacing grub-gfx with grub

This might be useful?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=93197

Last edited by VOT Productions (2012-05-30 20:44:17)