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I recently reinstalled Mageia and am having trouble opening it. The problem is, I think, in the menu.lst entry.

I tried to cobble this up but have made a mess of it. I'm not very clued up on such entries and if someone could put me right he (or she) would have my eternal gratitude.

The entry is --

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title      Mageia (on /dev/sdb2)
root      (hd1,1)
kernel      /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.24 BOOT_IMAGE=Mageia3 (on /dev/sdb2) splash quiet vga=788
initrd      (hd1,1)/boot/initrd-3.10.24-mageia.img
savedefault
boot

Thank you.

You can try it with this entry:

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title  Mageia (on /dev/sdb2)
root   (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.24 BOOT_IMAGE=Mageia3 root=/dev/sdb2 vga=788
initrd /boot/initrd-3.10.24-mageia.img


assuming that /dev/sdb2 is your root-partition and the kernel and initrd are there

lula wrote:You can try it with this entry:

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title  Mageia (on /dev/sdb2)
root   (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.24 BOOT_IMAGE=Mageia3 root=/dev/sdb2 vga=788
initrd /boot/initrd-3.10.24-mageia.img


assuming that /dev/sdb2 is your root-partition and the kernel and initrd are there

Thanks lula but didn't work. The trouble may be the kernel. I reinstalled Mageia from an iso dated last June. I updated it yesterday and the kernel may not be the 3.10.24 version but I can't check it until I can open Mageia. Catch22 situation.

So you can try and hope that the symlinks are there and pointing to something valid:

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title  Mageia (on /dev/sdb2)
root   (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb2 vga=788
initrd /boot/initrd.img

Another solution might be to boot from any Linux live version, mount the root partition and adjust the kernel and initrd line.

mihi wrote:

lula wrote:You can try it with this entry:

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title  Mageia (on /dev/sdb2)
root   (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.24 BOOT_IMAGE=Mageia3 root=/dev/sdb2 vga=788
initrd /boot/initrd-3.10.24-mageia.img


assuming that /dev/sdb2 is your root-partition and the kernel and initrd are there

Thanks lula but didn't work. The trouble may be the kernel. I reinstalled Mageia from an iso dated last June. I updated it yesterday and the kernel may not be the 3.10.24 version but I can't check it until I can open Mageia. Catch22 situation.

Do you get the GRUB menu? What disk order have you in the BIOS? Can you sketch out the partitions on your disks?

Thanks for your help lula and linuxero bu I'm taking the easy way out - reinstalling. I hadn't done much configuring so won't lose anything. Have a nice Christmas wherever you are - I'm in Australia where it's just starting to get hot.