Arch Linux

adamswe

Member

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 18

Error 15: file not found (initrd?) 0.7.1

Hi there everybody!

I have been having some problems with arch and Xorg... this made me look abroad for other quick and lean distros... to no avail. X works with others but I just can't find another distro that is so.... GOOD as arch.

Anyway, I have had arch 0.7 installed before. No problems with installation over ftp or booting into my new system. But this time round I thought I'd give arch0.7.1pre a try.

The installation works fine but when I try booting into my system start to get some problems. To start off with

chainloader +1

falls out of my grub config. I can edit grub during boot to get it to work, so no larger problem... I have hade a loog att my menu.lst file from windows and can see chainloader but it doesn't turn up during boot. WIERD.

And now the major problem. I can't boot into linux. I get this code when trying:

root (hd0,2)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda3 ro vga=773 devfs=nomount
  [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1c00, size=0x2b3435]
initrd /boot/initrd.img

Error 15: file not found

I have hade a look for the initrd.img through windows and cannot see it in /boot.

I don't have a seperate partition for /boot. : hda1 windows hda2 linux swap hda3 / hda4 /home. I have hda1 boot flagged but not /. Could this be the problem?

I use grub and it is installed to the MBR.

Linuxkernel=2.6.13.4-3 (default install kernel)

Any help would be great!

PS. I have searched through the forums and found some info on initrd but nothing that helps me unfortunately.

tpowa

Developer

From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,328

Re: Error 15: file not found (initrd?) 0.7.1

initrd is introduced in kernel 2.6.14 and it is in testing, the file is called initrd26.img or initrd26-full.img

adamswe

Member

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 18

Re: Error 15: file not found (initrd?) 0.7.1

what you are saying is I don't need to use initrd.img with the kernel I have then?

Why is this then put in my grub menu.lst by default if the laoder downlaods 2.13 kernel?

Thx!

adamswe

Member

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 18

Re: Error 15: file not found (initrd?) 0.7.1

Problem solved! When I did the ftp install from the archlinux 0.7.1 CD it downloaded from current. Including the kernel. I reinstalled from the CD instead and it worked straight away.

Also solved my xorg problems, though not satisfactoroly. I am now using the vesa driver instead of a VIA driver for my inbuilt grapghics on a laptop based on the C3 Nehemoah processor. Would be better with VIA.

Still, what are ya gonna do?