Hi, everyone. I am running Mageia 3 on an HP Pavilion laptop from a 16 GB flash drive. I have an intel processor and nVidia graphics. I am running the x86_64 version of Mageia.
So, this is my problem:
When I turn on my laptop, I am brought to the GRUB screen, but if I let it go to default, I get an error.
error: file '/boot/initrd-desktop.img' not found
This shows up for a few seconds, and then I get a long list that I can't interpret, but the basic format of the messages is:
[ 1.635794] [<ffffffff8107ff17>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xf7/0x230
The screen stays on these messages, and I have to force my laptop off. If the errors might help, I will upload a picture.
So, I reboot and go into advanced options, and see 3 choices.
Mageia Linux, with Linux desktop
Mageia Linux, with Linux 3.8.13.4-desktop-1.mga3
Mageia Linux, with Linux 3.8.13-desktop-1.mga3
Choosing the first option is the same as letting it go to default. Choosing the second option brings me straight to the long list of messages, without the file '/boot/initrd-desktop.img' not found error. And choosing the third option lets me boot into Mageia.
I looked in /boot/ and sure enough, initrd-desktop.img is there, but it is a symlink to initrd-3.8.13.4-desktop-1.mga3.img, which doesn't exist.
Here are the contents of /boot/
config@ mageia.bmp
config-3.8.13.4-desktop-1.mga3 symvers-3.8.13.4-desktop-1.mga3.xz
config-3.8.13-desktop-1.mga3 symvers-3.8.13-desktop-1.mga3.xz
dracut/ System.map@
gfxmenu* System.map-3.8.13.4-desktop-1.mga3
grub/ System.map-3.8.13-desktop-1.mga3
grub2/ vmlinuz@
initrd-3.8.13-desktop-1.mga3.img vmlinuz-3.8.13.4-desktop-1.mga3
initrd-desktop.img@ vmlinuz-3.8.13-desktop-1.mga3
initrd.img@ vmlinuz-desktop@
I'm not really sure where to go from here, but I think I need an initrd file for 3.8.13.4, but I don't know how to get one. Can someone help me out?
Thanks for any help.