I'm back with more trouble. The new kernel (2.6.38) won't seem to boot on my laptop. It would only do the initial reboot, then it wouldn't boot again. It started when I upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04. I tried a new install, that wouldn't boot. Then I tried Linux Mint 11, same problem. I have CDs for previous versions, in case nothing seems to work. What should I do to get the kernel to work. (I'm dualbooting with Windows 7)
View 4 Repliesbasically put a new hard drive in my old computer and wanted to install fedora on it, downloaded fedora 12 dvd iso (3ish gb in size) have burnt it to a dvd disc, turned my laptop on and set it to boot from cd drive, restarted it, it reads the disc and displays the following message:
ISOLINUX 3.75 209-04-16 ETCD Copyright (C) 1994-2009 H.Peter Anvin et al
Could not find kernel image: Linux
boot:_
The uderscore is flashing and i can type stuff in but have no idea what to type in to find the kernel image, or why it cant find the kernel image.
this is what i did i downloaded the latest stable kernel archive from kernel.org and extracted the archive into the download directory (i don't think that matters though) then i downloaded and installed the ncurses archive (needed for menuconfig) then i opened a terminal and navigated to the directory that was extracted from the archive and issues the floowing commands
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View 12 Replies View RelatedI'm having trouble getting my computer to boot from two different linux live cds, and I'm looking for ideas. Last night, I downloaded both Damn Small and Puppy linux to my emac and burned disk images of both. When I tried to boot my Dell Inspiron 8100 with them, they both appeared to work at first, but then both stopped booting part way through the process. I've run this computer on an earlier live cd version of Puppy without any problems before, and the fact that neither disk works leads me to believe I did something wrong when burning them.
I downloaded the iso files for both Puppy and Damn Small and burned these as images each to their own disk. This all I remember doing before, and I like I said, it worked in the past. I'll post more details later in the day--like where the boot process actually stops and what versions of each system I downloaded, but if this rings any bells for anyone.
Someone in my building has placed an old Gateway computer in the trash room. All I know from looking at it is that it says made for Windows XP and its the old tan hue computers use to have. My question is what are the odds that if I go grab it before trash day I could boot up Ubuntu 10.10 or some other current Linux build on it? I just want to use it as a secondary computer and solely for web browsing and possible word processing.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have an existing Dell Precision 690 workstation setup to dual boot Windows XP and CentOS 5.5. These operating systems are installed on two separate drives. I have a grub menu on the Linux drive with it set as drive 1 and points to the windows boot info on drive 2.I tried taking the linux drive and installing it in a new HP Z800 workstation to see if I could be lucky enough to get it to boot, but it didn't. Immediately after it starts to boot I get a few errors.Here is what the system shows:Right after this message "Red Hat nash version 5.1.19.6 starting" I get the following lines:
"Unable to access resume device (LABEL=SWAP-sda2)
mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
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My computer(win xp) crashed. When I turn it on I get the flickering line. If I press F2 while the BIOS is loading I can access the BIOS setup, but no operating system will load. I am not very familiar with BIOS. I put a cd in the cd drive that contained the latest download of Ubuntu and told it to reboot. Nothing happened. Setup says my CD-drive is set to a secondary drive. I looked in the CD files and I saw the windows installer (wubi). Is there a way I can boot linux?
View 13 Replies View RelatedSince puppy installs in ram, unstead of on harddrive, does that mean you could not use that computer as a dual boot one? I mean won't puppy always be wanting to run on boot up, since it's not on a seperate partitian ?
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View 6 Replies View RelatedJust go myself a new computer and thinking of how set it up. I have win7 HP and will probably install at least some version of Ubuntu on it shortly to have dual boot. Might come other Linux distros too in the future. I have a 1TB HDD and my question is what's the smartest way to share files on all OS's? In what format?
I was thinking of ~100GB for Windows for apps and games etc. ~20-50GB for Ubuntu and some third partition, where I store my common files like media, pics, docs, downloads and stuff, taking the rest of the free space.
What filesystem should the shared partition be? Is there some smart way to get windows home directories and linux home directories to point to the same place on the shared partition or would it be recommended to just keep them separated?
I have a computer that I use for practically everything. In the same room I have a second computer that I use purely for trialing Linux distributions, It currently has Debian, gNewSense and Kubuntu on it with Grub to choose between. This computer has no keyboard / mouse / monitor, but it has directly wired ethernet to the home network. Is there any way I can set it to be remotely controlled from before / during grub so I can choose from the other computer which to run? I realise I can just crawl behind the desk and unplug the keyboard / mouse / monitor, but I don't particularly want to every time I reboot into a different distro. I also realise that remote access during boot is a security risk so is there a way of allowing only one MAC address to do the controlling?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've been trying to build and install a 2.6.37 kernel on a RedHat Enterprise 5.4 system. The build completes with no errors and I get the bzImage file as expected. I used /sbin/installkernel to install the new kernel on my system.
When I attempt to boot the new kernel it fails. RedHat nash starts and a few seconds later it panics with the message:
I checked the file that /sbin/installkernel named /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37 and it shows that it is a "Linux kernel x86 boot executable".
The 2.6.18 kernel I'm trying to replace shows its filetype as "ELF 64-bit shared object"
There is a file in my build tree arch/x86/boot/compressed/vmlinux that is filetype "ELF 64-bit executable" which is closer. I test-installed this but GRUB said that this was an unsupported filetype.
I am using FC12 (2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64) and I have tried compiling the new kernel, downloaded the sources from the kernel.org for X86_64. The kernel version is 2.6.32.15. I have successfully solved the mkinitrd issue referring to the tutorial on the howtoforge.net but still not able to boot into the newly compiled kernel. I have updated menu.lst,set default=0 to boot into the new kernel. Can I compiled my old kernel 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64? I don't have source code installed that is bugging me while writing kernel modules?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a Western Digital 1Tb WD10EAVS Caviar Gp Hard Drive. It does not have an operating system installed but it have alot of my important files. The hard drive began making a clicking sound and when I boot up my computer I see my other drives and the sata slot for that drive remains blank. Can any one help me recover or fix my hard drive
View 1 Replies View Relatedwhen I was updating my Ubuntu, the Linux kernel images were also updated (to 2.6.35-x), and the one I was using was removed (2.6.32-x). Since then, none of the 2.6.35-x kernels boot at all. I have upgraded several times, and now have installed 2.6.35-23-generic and 2.6.35-24-generic. Neither boots. I am running 2.6.32-24-generic, but there are no sources or headers for that. I even compiled 2.6.35-7 and 2.6.36, but neither worked either.
After I select the kernel in Grub, the screen goes blank, my hard drive spins a few times, and the screen stays blank, until finally the computer just shuts off. I tried running one of those kernels, and then booting normally after that failed, and looked at /var/log/kern.log. I saw messages from the last time I booted using 2.6.32-24-generic, and messages from when I booted just now (identified by the timestamps), but I could see no messages that took place in between, when the nonfunctional kernel should have been loading.
I really don't know what other information to add. I am running Ubuntu 10.10 on a Toshiba Satellite A215-S7411. The hard drive is an external hard drive connected with a USB Y cable. like VirtualBox, do not run without having the drivers compiled, and to compile them, I need the kernel headers, which I don't have and are not available in the repositories.
I am using Ubuntu 9.10. Since a few days my I cannot boot anymore with the newest kernel (2.6.31-20.31). Instead I get a menu with a menu that lets me boot in recovery mode or boot from previous kernels (2.6.31-19).
In recovery mode for 2.6.31.20 it hangs at: Waiting for root file system. It boots just fine with kernel 2.6.31.19 except that apache and cups have to be reinstalled after every reboot. Everthing else seems to work without any problem.
Is there a way to do a system recovery, like in Win XP, going back to a system state from before the problems started?
I installed a fedora with kernel 2.6.15-1 (quite old, isn't it ?) on my vmware workstation and try to compile a new kernel with 2.6.15.2 just for testing. I download the kernel and compile with that:make menuconfig make modules-install install
then I reboot the server but if i choose the new kernel. the system poped up the error msg like : Unable to find device-mapper major/Minor No volume groups found unable to find volume group "VolGroup00"
Unable to access resume devices (/dev/VolGroup00/Logvol01)mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
yes. I am using LVM to setup the fedora.
i search online and find some possible causes:
1) the .config does not contain support for LVM.
then i choose to enclude the support for LVM
2) need to re-create initrd i use commond initrd --force-lvm-probe to generate the .img file
But both the method do not work. and i notices that the new '2.6.15.2.img' is about 1.5M which is smaller than the current 2.6.15.1 img (1.7M)
I would like to boot the Linux kernel alone and run busybox, not including a GUI.
How can I do that? How can I make a custom bzImage, initrd.img and how can I change the file structures in that images?
I'm trying to upgrad from kernel 2.6.32.9 to 2.6.34.3 and I'm having problems.The boot finished with that old gem "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempting to kill init !"I suspect that it's something to do with my PATA IDE driver because there have been kernel changes in this area.My problem is all the boot messages scroll off the top of the screen before I can read them and it's no use saying look at dmesg or /var/log/messages because the root fs isn't there - another reason why I think it's to do with the drivers.So my question is, is there some way I can slow down the boot process so that I have a chance of reading the messages ?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a SuSe 10 sp2 box to administer. explain the significance of the /Boot and how to use the different kernel versions, any best practices and any good to know 'How to's'
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a virtual box running CentOS 5.3. I am experimenting with compiling and installing a kernel 2.6.33 on this.
However, the kernel compiled ok, but when I did the install it gave me these warning, not sure if they are important or not.
The steps I did was:
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In my grub.conf I have the following:
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When I try and boot I get the following problem:
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Ubuntu 9.1 is installed in sda1, however, while creating a separate boot partition an error occurred and now I can not boot sda1. I get the message load kernel first. I have tried without success to learn to load a kernel.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have installed Linux Mint 9 within Win XP and have installed an additional HDD as a Slave on the same IDE cable as my DVD drive. I installed ubuntu on to the additional HDD using the live CD and when I try to boot the computer I am greeted by two versions of GRUB?! First version appears to be the one that comes with Mint and so asks me to boot either Windows or Mint, when I select Mint I get ubuntu's version of Grub, it asks me to boot one of three OS's; here's where it gets weird:
Top of screen says:
GNU GRUB Version 1.98-1ubuntu5-1mint2
If I select Win, it boots fine. If I select Mint it boots fine however if I select Ubuntu it says:
error: no such device
error: file not found
error: you need to load the kernel first
I pressed "e" within grub and was faced with this:
insmod ntfs
set root ='(hd1,1)'
search --no floppy --fs-uuid --set f6422203421e479
loopback loop0 /linuxmint/disks/root.disk
setroot =(loop0)
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-21-generic root =dev/sdb1 loop=/linuxmint/disks/root.disk ro quiet splash
initrd/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic
I compiled a kernel 2.6.37.1 and after compilation i am not able to boot with new kernel.
I am getting following errors
Alert :
I unfortunately remove "some" softwares on my OpenSuse10 (preinstalled on my laptop, without cd driver) cause I was running out of space on hd. Icons starts to dissappear ...
Then I have only the Grub 0.97 shell that appears and to use to solve the problem... tried to boot kernel, but said that it "must be loaded before boot".
In the Grub 0.97 black window I have two lines :
I press "b", to boot with the First line : kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz ... but the window turns blue and said "all data would be lost", so it shut down the system automatically to avoid this.
I press "e" to edit the command in the boot sequence for the same line, but don't really know what to tell Grub to do.
I must get my important datas back on my hd before "Restore to factory settings" (the last option). Any solution ?
Maybe it is a step on a solution ?
From [url] I downloaded linux kernel 2.6.27.27 on a usb memory stick. Could it be useful ? how to ?
In my Red Hat 7.2 , the /boot/grub/grub.conf has the following data :
But when I reboot my Red Hat server , I don't see the Grub menu to say edit the boot kernel .
im doing a school assignement and i cant find any info about this anywhere. How do i make sure that a module is loaded into the kernel upon boot?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am using FC9, I want to write a module that will always show current time after booting.But for that I need not only to load module using insmod/modprobe, but also to compile that module during boot time.How can I perform this 2 steps correctly.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI am using DEBIAN 6.0 and I wannna update my kernel from 2.6.32 to 2.6.38. Every time, I do it but after the installation & rebooting into the new kernel it gives me error "UNABLE TO BOOT INTO THE KERNEL".
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