Error 15: File not Found after fresh install of Centos 5.3 with LVM

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Keds
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Error 15: File not Found after fresh install of Centos 5.3 w

Post by Keds » 2009/10/19 16:48:59

Hi All,

I have just done a reinstall of Centos 5.3 on a dedicated server (via a KVM). My partition arrangement was the default presented to me by the installer:

100Mb /dev/sda1 for /boot
460Gb /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 for /

As you can see, I'm using LVM for everything other than /boot (I need to use LVM for an app I am testing).

On reboot, I get the following:

[quote]
Booting 'CentOS (2.6.18-128.el5)'

root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

Error 15: File not found

Press any key to continue...
[/quote]

It looks like it can't find vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5 in /boot.

I have rebooted using the Centos Install Disk 1 and gone in to rescue mode. Rescue mode mounted my / under /mnt/sysimage, from there I could see that /boot had been mounted from /dev/sda1 as it should be.

However, there was no initrd.image or /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5 under /boot or /boot/grub. Shouldn't the CentOS installer have created these?

Is there anyway I can recover this installation?

All help is very gratefully received.

Regards

Al

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Re: Error 15: File not Found after fresh install of Centos 5.3 with LVM

Post by pschaff » 2009/10/19 17:05:41

Did the installation appear to finish successfully, without errors? The missing files would be typical for an install that failed to complete. Anything in the log files left in /root? Any other devices on the system besides /dev/sda? Is RAID involved?

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