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calef13

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Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 142

kernel missing from default install

Hi,

I just installed arch linux in a dual boot configuration with windows xp. During the installation I selected only the base packages and installed the default kernel, the IDE/SCSI one. The kernel installed fine and I installed grub to /dev/sda as I have a single sata hard disk. I have windows on sda1 and a swap on sda2 which is at the end of the disk and sda3 in the middle for my root partition. Once I rebooted after installation however my windows install booted fine but grub gives me and error claiming it cannot find the initrd26.img. I do not know much about the whole boot process of the kernel so I was hoping if someone could help me find a fix. Here is a list of my /boot and /boot/grub directories and my menu.lst file. I noticed there is a file called kernel26.img but I am not sure whether that is the initrd26.img file or the kernel itself.

bt ~ # cd /mnt/sda3/boot
bt boot # ls
System.map26  diag1.img  grub/  kconfig26  kernel26-fallback.img  kernel26.img  vml
bt boot # ls grub
e2fs_stage1_5  ffs_stage1_5      jfs_stage1_5  minix_stage1_5     stage1  stage2_eltorito  vstafs_stage1_5
fat_stage1_5   iso9660_stage1_5  menu.lst      reiserfs_stage1_5  stage2  ufs2_stage1_5    xfs_stage1_5
bt boot #

# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst

# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS
#
#  Linux           Grub
# -------------------------
#  /dev/fd0        (fd0)
#  /dev/hda        (hd0)
#  /dev/hdb2       (hd1,1)
#  /dev/hda3       (hd0,2)
#

#  FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#          | 640x480    800x600    1024x768   1280x1024
#      ----+--------------------------------------------
#      256 | 0x301=769  0x303=771  0x305=773   0x307=775
#      32K | 0x310=784  0x313=787  0x316=790   0x319=793
#      64K | 0x311=785  0x314=788  0x317=791   0x31A=794
#      16M | 0x312=786  0x315=789  0x318=792   0x31B=795
#     +-------------------------------------------------+

# general configuration:
timeout   5
default   0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
#
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
#
#-*

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro
initrd /boot/initrd26.img

# (1) Windows XP
title Windows XP calef13 edition
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Thanks in advance,

Calef13

nikron

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Registered: 2007-05-15

Posts: 130

Re: kernel missing from default install

Just change initrd26.img to kernel26.img

ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: kernel missing from default install

The regular grub config uses kernel26.img as the initrd (yes, that's what it is). It also has another entry that uses kernel26-fallback.img (a bigger, more generalized initrd) and appropriate options to boot in single-user mode.

I don't know why yours didn't come out right. There isn't an initrd26.img file any more (though I think there used to be one a while back).

calef13

Member

Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 142

Re: kernel missing from default install

Just for completeness (that's not a word is it?) changing the initrz26.img to kernel26.img fixed my problem, thanks a lot for the quick replies.