Re: how to find FC4 kernel filename for grub?

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Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:17:54 +0900

Tim <tim@mail.localhost.invalid> wrote:

>> Boot off the rescue disc, mount all your partitions, and list their
>> contents.

H.Brown wrote:

> I used the commands
>
> find . -iname \*vmlinuz\*
> find . -iname \*initrd\*
>
> and found the files. For some reason I wasn't able to get to them before
> I changed the root to the mounted image using
>
> chroot /mnt/sysimage

Using find and locate isn't my forte, but it may be that they don't look
in /mnt by default. Some things don't, as the /mnt directory sometimes
contains unmounted things.

>> My Fedora Core 3 Linux is like this:
>>
>> root (hd1,0)
>> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
>> initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.img

> it turns out I can enter these two commands as follows
>
> kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4
> initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
>
> Now I can issue the boot command, and bootup goes through several steps
> but unfortunately hangs.
>
> There are a bunch of similar lines on screen at the time, the last line
> reads:
>
> [<c0103a51>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
>
> Not sure why it won't go further. I wonder if I need to set some other
> parameter in grub before booting??

I think you might also *need* the root=/ part of the kernel line, as well.
That's the mount path to where the Linux / (system root directory) is to
be found, for the running system, by the way (which is different than the
root path for the GRUB). Sorry about line wrap going astray earlier on.

I don't know what that error message is.

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