On Wednesday 22 December 2004 11:55 am, Marco Karsten wrote:
Hi,
I updated the kernel last night via YOU... Now I have the problem described below. Grub error message when trying to boot linux: Error 15: File not found Windows boots fine. How to solve the problem that I cannot boot in to linux ? Or... How can I use the rescue system to get linux bootable again ?
-----Original Message----- From: Marcus Meissner [mailto:meissner@suse.de]
Hi folks,
Like some of you noted the 9.2 kernels RPMs are not there anymore, even though they are listed in the advisory.
This is due us receiving reports where the Yast Online Update updating this kernel made the machine fail to boot.
The reason is that a script is no longer creating the vmlinuz and initrd symlinks as is required for successful booting.
I haven't done the update but it sounds like the symlinks aren't being created as shown below. (watch the wrapping) doug:~ # ls -l /boot - snip to relevant - -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 49223 Nov 17 14:34 config-2.6.8-24.5-default lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Nov 30 21:40 initrd -> initrd-2.6.8-24.5-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1991491 Nov 30 21:40 initrd-2.6.8-24.5-default lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Nov 30 21:40 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.8-24.5-default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1609052 Nov 17 14:28 vmlinuz-2.6.8-24.5-default You could boot cd/dvd to rescue mode and create the /boot/vmlinuz and /boot/initrd symlinks to point to the new kernel and initrd. That ought to work if I am reading the advisory correctly. Good luck Doug