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Cocktus

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 23

Toofish kernel does not launch from grub

I'm trying to install Arch Linux to my Asus EEE but I'm having problems with the Toofish kernel. It won't launch from grub.

I added to /boot/grub/menu.lst next rows:

# (2) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux EEE kernel
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuzeee root=/dev/sda1 ro

This is what I get:

Error 15: File not found

I have installed the kernel from toofish repository. What could be the problem?

timttmy

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From: UK

Registered: 2008-12-01

Posts: 53

Re: Toofish kernel does not launch from grub

I would make sure that root is on /dev/sda1.

What does root= in the stock kernel entry? Make sure they are the same.

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timttmy

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From: UK

Registered: 2008-12-01

Posts: 53

Re: Toofish kernel does not launch from grub

I just checked mine.
Note the lack of /boot on the last line

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux eee
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuzeee root=/dev/sda3

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pyther

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Registered: 2008-01-21

Posts: 1,395

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Re: Toofish kernel does not launch from grub

Does the stock kernel not work for you?

Do you have a boot partition? What partition is your root partition on?

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Cocktus

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 23

Re: Toofish kernel does not launch from grub

Stock kernel works all right.

fstab says:

/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda4/home ext3 defaults 0 1

So sda1 is the boot partition.

If I use

kernel /vmlinuzee root=/dev/sda1 ro

it starts to load but gets jammed.

Error message:

Warning: Unable to open initial console.
Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to kernel
[drm:intelfb_panic] *ERROR* panic occured, switching back to text console