[SOLVED] Can't open Mageia3

[mihi]

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.

[lula]

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

[mihi]

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.

[lula]

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.

[linuxero]

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?

[mihi]

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.