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After 3 tries to install Arch Linux, I think I'm finally close (the process of installing it on my eeePC was way smoother). The installer said everything was successful from package installation to GRUB. I reboot, select Arch Linux from the GRUB menu, and got this error:
Booting 'Arch Linux'
root (hd2,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/a868aa81-ced0-4c38-af20-5a0f6af356da ro
Error 15: File not found
Press any key to continue...
So I boot up into an old Xubuntu installation on a different hard disk and mount the disk I installed Arch on. I do an ls and this is what I get:
root@rockstar:~# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb/
root@rockstar:~# cd /media/sdb/
root@rockstar:/media/sdb# ls
grub kernel26-fallback.img kernel26.img lost+found System.map26 vmlinuz26
To me this doesn't look like enough to be bootable, but I could be wrong. Is this enough to boot? Did I install correctly? If so, then onto my next question. A few months ago I got a similar error from GRUB when I installed Ubuntu. I remember I had to fix UUID to get it to boot. What I don't remember is how to retrieve the UUID. Here is what I have in the grub/menu.lst file:
# 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
# http://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 (hd2,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/a868aa81-ced0-4c38-af20-5a0f6af356da ro
initrd /kernel26.img
# (1) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd2,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/a868aa81-ced0-4c38-af20-5a0f6af356da ro
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img
Thanks for any help. I'd really like to use Arch Linux on my desktop. When I put it on my eeePC netbook it was running GNOME faster than Ubuntu was on my desktop. That was the thing that made me want to totally switch over.
Regards,
Brad
Last edited by resuni (2010-12-28 01:05:18)
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To me this doesn't look like enough to be bootable, but I could be wrong. Is this enough to boot?
Should be. Same as mine
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resuni wrote:To me this doesn't look like enough to be bootable, but I could be wrong. Is this enough to boot?
Should be. Same as mine
Ok, thanks. Any answer to my second question then?
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UUID#by-uuid
man blkid
Last edited by skunktrader (2010-12-28 01:19:27)
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Grub and the kernel doesn't always see the discs in the same order. Try with root (1,0) etc
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Grub and the kernel doesn't always see the discs in the same order. Try with root (1,0) etc
I tried switching it to all 3 of my drives and all of them returned the same error.
Thanks for the link and manpage. I found the UUID of /dev/sdb1 according to Xubuntu. I first tried that UUID in the Arch GRUB, which then returned the same error. Then I tried adding an entry to the Xubuntu GRUB using that UUID, tried booting from it, and got the error again. I don't know what to do now. Is there something I'm overlooking?
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File not found error means just that, it is not finding that drive
Either uuid is wrong or you have the wrong partition
Also check you have kernel installed? know it sounds crazy but worth checking
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Some days ago I had a "Error 15: File not found" that put me searching all day. It turned out that the problem was the partition
was formatted as ext4.
Now, that shouldn't happen with the arch GRUB version, which should be patched to recognize ext4.
Perhaps its just me, I have a GRUB only partition and the files on it could be to old.
Anyhow, just my 2 cents.
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bha I'm blind today.
Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2010-12-28 14:23:45)
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