-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Sunday 2006-11-26 at 14:01 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
Check that file, perhaps it is broken somehow. Usually, "/boot/initrd" is a symlink, so check the link and the destination. Also, you can try to expand it on a temporary dir, it is gzipped.
Well, if it[1] was broken then I wouldn't be able to boot into the installed system from the Installation CD/DVD, and if it couldn't fit into memory then, again, it wouldn't fit when booting from the Installation CD.
I'm not sure of that.
Something very weird going on here and I cannot figure it out.
I used the Repair System from the Installation CD and when the automatic repair did nothing to fix the problem I used the Expert Mode and tried to Repair the Boot Loader. The interesting -- if you call this error message "interesting"! -- thing here is I got the following error message:
grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,8) (hd0,8) Error 21 Selected disk does not exist
but, of course, the disc does exist.
Have a look at the "/boot/grub/device.map" file. Mine has: (hd1) /dev/hdb (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd3) /dev/hdd (hd0) /dev/hda
Grub is reading something from somewhere which has been corrupted but the Installation CD is not reading the same info and therefore boots into the existing system correctly. But what is grub reading and, more importantly, how to fix this is the 64,000 dollar question :-) (which I cannot answer :-( ).
([1] BTW, where is this gzipped copy located" I couldn't find it :-( .)
Copy? I don't understand. But: nimrodel:/boot # l initrd* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Sep 28 02:06 initrd -> initrd-2.6.16.21-0.25-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2440205 Oct 5 21:42 initrd-2.6.16.21-0.25-cer -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2438012 Sep 28 02:06 initrd-2.6.16.21-0.25-default lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Oct 5 21:50 initrd-cer -> initrd-2.6.16.21-0.25-cer initrd is a symlink, and you should check it is pointing correctly. Also: nimrodel:/boot # file initrd-2.6.16.21-0.25-default initrd-2.6.16.21-0.25-default: gzip compressed data, from Unix, max compression it is a gziped file, so probably it can be checked. Or even easier, rebuilt wit the command "mkinitrd". Do it, it won't hurt. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFaYUctTMYHG2NR9URAq12AKCE5TCduoQIiw8+mhudUUqKUqW7IgCfUthQ +4/MIFPXimaPDiWU8p9f/U4= =mvyI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org