2010 October
October 5, 2010
Load kernel and boot your system with GRUB2
I installed a new verison of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx the other day on a brand new formatted hard drive. Installation went smoothly as you’d expect, but when I rebooted the server I was stuck on GRUB menu (my worst nightmare). The server just wouldn’t load the operating system and typing ‘boot’ in GRUB gave me a No Loded Kernel error.
I tried re-installing, re-formating, various GRUB commands and nothing worked. Thankfully, I found a solution on a lengthy GRUB2 documentation page. In summary, I had to tell GRUB to boot from the most recent kernel and this is the way to do it:
set root=(hdX,Y) linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sdXY ro initrd /initrd.img boot
Remember to specify correct X,Y values. For example, GRUB counts the first hard drive as 0, the first partition as 1. If your Ubuntu system is on sda1, enter set root=(hd0,1). You can list your partitions in GRUB2 using “ls” command.
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