Sep 4, 2004, 3:57 PM
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On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 22:04:15 +0200, Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl> wrote:
> Mike Williams wrote:
> > On Saturday 04 September 2004 20:28, Grant wrote:
> >
> >>>It says:
> >>>
> >>>Error 15: File not found
> >>>Press any key to continue
> >>>
> >>>after the above message, and pressing a key goes back to grub. Does
> >>>anyone know what this means? Is 'kernel-2.4.27-hardened-r1'
> >>>incorrect?
> >
> >
> > Depends what the rest of your config says.
> >
>
> Not to mention what the file is called in the /boot partition or folder.
>
> But Mike is right; you need to post the rest of your config, since that
> "missing file or folder" error does not, ime, necessarily refer to the
> kernel-- it might refer to a initrd that you use for bootsplash, or
> heaven only knows what, or might indicate not that the filename is
> wrong, but that the path to the (correct) filename is wrong.
>
> How did you install your kernel, btw? If you used make install, you
> could just use 'vmlinuz' for the filename, and then you wouldn't need to
> worry about the full exact filename of the kernel image (vmlinuz is a
> symlink to the most-recently installed kernel; any previously-installed
> kernel is linked to vmlinuz.old in the same operation, and any
> previously previously installed kernel drops off the symlink list and
> must be listed by full name, but who cares since you're not so terribly
> likely to be booting a kernel 2 kernels behind the most recently installed).
Thanks a lot for all the help. Holly's comment about kernel
installation made me remember hat I hadn't copied two crucial things
after compiling the kernel. One of them was the System.map, but I
can't remember what the other was. That system is now booted into the
harened kernel.
- Grant
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