kernel recovery

[alexram]

Kernel has been corrupted for unknown reasons.
grub is coming up and staying there, & not booting after.

Here i made some attempts.

grub> root (hd0,0)
File system type is ext2fs,partition type 0x83

grub> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/
Error 15: file not found

grub>initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.8-20.img
Error 19:Linux kernel must be loaded before initrd.

Somebody please help me how to boot linux kenrel.
thanks inadvance

[Jonathan183]

This sounds more like a grub problem ... you could try SuperGrub or boot from a live CD, mount your boot partition and check what the problem is ... btw what did you do to your system before the boot problem occurred?

[alexram]

I just did init 6 before this problem.
Is it possible to rescue linux in vmvare.

[Jonathan183]

I'm not sure I can help you since I have not used vmware at all ... before the restart had you been trying to do a kernel update or something else?

If you just get a grub prompt that suggests the grub config file is missing rather than a kernel issue ... hence my initial response. You may find the grub commands work so you can try find etc.

[devils casper]

grub> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/

Try passing actual device name ( /dev/sda1 or so ) instead of LABEL.

grub> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=/dev/sdax

[alexram]

Even after passing device name,the same error occuring
Error 15:file not found

[Jonathan183]

try

find /boot/grub/stage1
find /boot/grub/menu.lst
find /boot/grub/grub.conf

so you can confirm which partition the grub config files are located.

Ed: on my system I get

grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
 (hd0,8)
 (hd0,10)

grub> find /boot/grub/menu.lst
 (hd0,8)
 (hd0,10)

but thats just because I have two versions of Linux and installed grub for each.

[devils casper]

In case nothing works, boot up from SuperGRUB CD and re-install GRUB.

[alexram]

thank you for suggestion , i will try it & come back