Arch Linux

helleborus

Member

From: Sliedrecht, the Netherlands

Registered: 2006-12-19

Posts: 11

grub.conf: grub error 13 and/or kernel [solved]

Can somebody give my advise about  grub.conf and/or kernel installation?.

Grub complains about error 13.
I installed arch from "Arch_Linux_Office_Install_CD"

Details:

My grub.conf:

title  Arch Linux  [/boot/vmlinuz]
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26.img root=/dev/hda6 ro
initrd /kernel26.img

- boot partition is hda1 so (hd0,0) is OK
- arch partition is hda6
- kernel26.img is located in / of bootpartition
- kernel26.img is only 260k in size seems to small.

Problem is I also updated the kernel:

Actions:
1 st. installed arch from the "Arch_Linux_Office_Install_CD"
2 did not install the boor partition cause I have grub and gentoo :-) already installed
3. chrooted from gentoo into arch
4. updated packman
5. upgraded the kernel: pacman -Sf kernel26
6. did mkinitcpio -g /boot/kernel26.img
7. hda6 is a reiserfs partition

gradgrind

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 921

Re: grub.conf: grub error 13 and/or kernel [solved]

My grub.conf:

title  Arch Linux  [/boot/vmlinuz]
root   (hd0,0)

kernel /vmlinuz26.img root=/dev/hda6 ro
                ******

initrd /kernel26.img

- boot partition is hda1 so (hd0,0) is OK
- arch partition is hda6
- kernel26.img is located in / of bootpartition
- kernel26.img is only 260k in size seems to small.
[/code]

Should be:
[code]kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda6 ro[/code]

And yes, the kernel26.img seems small to me, too.

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helleborus

Member

From: Sliedrecht, the Netherlands

Registered: 2006-12-19

Posts: 11

Re: grub.conf: grub error 13 and/or kernel [solved]

Changing vmlinuz26.img into vmlinuz26 did not help.
There were some more problems.

Since a new install of arch is not so much work I decided to install arch-0.8.

After this booting is without problems
At this moment kde is installed.

Thanks for your help gradgrind