Arch Linux

manish411

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Registered: 2012-01-14

Posts: 15

error 15 file not found.

I was able to install arch linux on a 2 GB flash drive. But I cannot boot into arch linux from the grub menu. I greeted by a message like "error 15 file not found"
my menu.lst file looks like

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

# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS 
#
#  Linux           Grub
# -------------------------
#  /dev/fd0        (fd0)
#  /dev/sda        (hd0)
#  /dev/sdb2       (hd1,1)
#  /dev/sda3       (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
#     +-------------------------------------------------+
#  for more details and different resolutions see
#  https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB#Framebuffer_resolution

# 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   (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/9157e8a3-c1bd-499a-95fe-524cd9c07d0e ro
initrd /initramfs-linux.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/9157e8a3-c1bd-499a-95fe-524cd9c07d0e ro
initrd /initramfs-linux-fallback.img

# (2) Windows
#title Windows
#rootnoverify (hd0,0)
#makeactive
#chainloader +1

/etc/fstab file looks like

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>	<dir>	<type>	<options>	<dump>	<pass>
tmpfs		/tmp	tmpfs	nodev,nosuid	0	0
#UUID=15eb5a8a-dddc-4b28-8183-f81d450b78d5 swap swap defaults 0 0
#UUID=9157e8a3-c1bd-499a-95fe-524cd9c07d0e / ext3 defaults 0 1
#UUID=aae9fb61-b5ec-40b5-a3dd-232c9a77f29b /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
#UUID=f1a9a9ad-8344-4eb5-be91-1af155c756e4 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=15eb5a8a-dddc-4b28-8183-f81d450b78d5 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=9157e8a3-c1bd-499a-95fe-524cd9c07d0e / ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=aae9fb61-b5ec-40b5-a3dd-232c9a77f29b /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
UUID=f1a9a9ad-8344-4eb5-be91-1af155c756e4 /home ext3 defaults 0 1

and result of #blikd is

/dev/sda1: UUID="edc30674-5e24-46ae-865c-647b5af6a1ca" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda5: UUID="8045e664-17ad-4bfd-8b5e-56d7f17fbcdd" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sdb1: UUID="aae9fb61-b5ec-40b5-a3dd-232c9a77f29b" TYPE="ext2" 
/dev/sdb2: UUID="15eb5a8a-dddc-4b28-8183-f81d450b78d5" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sdb3: UUID="9157e8a3-c1bd-499a-95fe-524cd9c07d0e" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/sdb4: UUID="f1a9a9ad-8344-4eb5-be91-1af155c756e4" TYPE="ext3" 

manish411

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Registered: 2012-01-14

Posts: 15

Re: error 15 file not found.

Here is the result of my  fdisk -l /dev/sdb

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1         100      102384   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2             101         356      262144   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb3             357        1533     1205248   83  Linux
/dev/sdb4            1534        1926      402432   83  Linux

Last edited by manish411 (2012-01-14 05:24:14)

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,584

Re: error 15 file not found.

If you are booting from the flash drive then the root device might be identified as (hd0,0) instead of (hd1,0)

manish411

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Registered: 2012-01-14

Posts: 15

Re: error 15 file not found.

Thnx that worked. But what is the meaning of the above. I mean (hd0,0) means the hard disk , and I am booting from from (hd1,0), the usb flash drive