Error 2: bad file or directory

[wubantos]

Suse 9 was installed in the system and now it is down and it is giving the following error fro the grub.

grub> kernel /vmlinz

Error 2: Bad file or directory

grub > root (hd0,0)

Filesystem id type ext2fs, partition type 0x83

Please help and if there is any way that the kernel can be loaded with out affecting the system configuration.

[yancek]

What happened immediately prior to the failure to boot? Any changes to hardware? software?

grub> kernel /vmlinz

You spelled it wrong and would get that error as a result. Did you mispell the command or is that just a typo here?

Your root output above shows a Linux partition on sda1 (hd0,0). Do you have a LiveCD to use to mount your root partition to look for the boot files? You could try from the grub prompt: find /boot/vmlinuz. It would also be helpful if you could post your partition information from the fdisk command.

[wubantos]

No one knows on what happened to the system prior to this problem. Actually i mistyped the kernel when i post it here it is :

grub> kernel vmlinuz

and i tried so many times but it is not loading it and it keeps on giving me the same error. But is it possible to mount it from a livecd and recover or reload the kernel with out deleting the data.

[yancek]

But is it possible to mount it from a livecd and recover or reload the kernel with out deleting the data.

Yes.

No one knows on what happened to the system prior to this problem.

Is this a production server? home computer? Enterprise Desktop? Suse Linux, version 9.0? Unable to boot anything?

Do you have the Suse Linux Install CD/DVD? Do you have any other Linux Live CD? Do you know how to get partition information, mount?

What happens when you run from the grub prompt: find /boot/vmlinuz?

Post the info requested above and someone will be able to help.