Grub: file not found

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 2014-01-05 at 21:19 -0800, Cody Smith wrote:
> also, for Grub (and most bootloaders for that matter) to find
> vmlinuz-linux on a setup WITHOUT a separate /boot PARTITION (not just
> a directory), the vmlinuz-linux file has to be at the root of the
> filesystem (i.e. /vmlinuz-linux instead of /boot/vmlinuz-linux), this
> is because bootloaders read the fs differently than the kernel and
> userspace tools.

Bullshit!

> if this is the case for you (which I don't know how this happened, the
> debian packages should have put the image in the correct place
> automagically), simply copy the file from /boot to / as root.

Even if this would be true, a link would be the correct way.

FWIW, it's also common to search the web, before asking dumb questions.


There are several howtos available, to solve the most likely reasons for
this issue.

And please post to the list on what sd[xy] your /boot partitions are and
the output of "cat path/to/grub.cfg", usually its /boot/grub/grub.cfg.