I am using suse 10. i went onto the online update and it finished successfully. it asked me to reboot the system.
when i did that it shows the following error
“Error 15: file not found”
What should i do now?
Post your /boot/grub/menu.lst file and the output of: ll /boot
My guess is the kernel was updated but either the vmlinuz (and/or initrd image) link to the kernel was not updated correctly or menu.lst entry was not changed.
If you can’t access the system by any means you could try booting from the install DVD via the Boot installed system option or using the DVD advanced (or was it expert?) tools to fix the bootloader.
Repair the bootloader. Boot off the 10.0 install media. Select Installation –> pass through Langauge, Media Check (don’t check), Licence to Installation Mode where you select Other –> Boot installed system – and boot to Suse.
When it’s running go to Yast –> System –> Boot Loader. The Grub configuration screen comes up with the Tab “Section Management” activated. In the lower right is a drop-down selector labelled “Other”. Select from “Other” the option “Propose New Configuration” and then wait for Grub to analyse your partitions and display a new configuration. This may take a while. Important: When that finishes, activate the tab labelled “Boot Loader Installation” and select to “Boot from the Master Boot Record”. [Yast will often default to booting from the root or boot partition rather than from the MBR but that’s for experts only – always choose the MBR.] Then click Finish to save the changes and install the reconfigured Grub into the hard drive’s MBR. If you get a message that "The bootloader boot sector will be written to a floppy disk … don’t bother with the floppy – just click OK to proceed and install to the MBR. Reboot and you should be able to boot to openSUSE using the Grub menu screen.
That comes from this tutorial:
GRUB Boot Multiboot openSUSE Windows (2000, XP, Vista) using the Grub bootloader.
I’m experiencing a similiar issue (resulting from a different situation).
I have a dualboot system with opensuse 11 and Windows XP on my primary HD and a second Windows XP installation on a slave HD. I attempted to delete the Opensuse partitions through Windows Administrative Controls (I did that because I’m still new to linux but an expert at Windows) because I thought it.
My ultimate goal was to remove and reinstall the Opensuse partition, as the prior install was giving me a lot of issues.
Anyway, I encountered a problem when I restarted the system, because all that shows on the screen now is attempting to find Grub then Error 15.
I’ve attempted to run the OpenSuse DVD to repair what I did; but the system doesn’t seem to recognize the Opensuse DVD.
Before this everything (hardware and Windows partitions) in the computer worked fine except linux.
Basically what I’ve learned from this is that when I intially installed opensuse, it added the Grub boatloarder as a precurser to any of the Operating System files.
The problem as well as what I need help with is finding a way around barrier I created. Because even though the Grub and Opensuse files may have been deleted (or fragments may still be there) the Windows partitions are still intact.
Hope that makes sense.
Please help.
Mike
If you deleted the Linux partitions using windows partitioner at Control Panel –> Admin/computer management/ –> storage etc, then that should get rid of them. Now you can do one of two things:
- reinstall the windows boot code into the Master Boot Record of the drive (which will be the final eradication of Linux)
- install Suse again (which will allow booting of windows too)
To fix the windows boot code (option 1) do this:
Insert the XP/2000 installation disk and proceed to the final screen where you have the option to Repair Your Computer. Press “R” for Repair and log onto the Windows installation. When the command prompt appears, enter the command fixmbr. Confirm “yes” and you will receive confirmation of the reinstallation of Windows bootstrap code into the MBR. Enter exit and the computer will reboot.
That might be pointless because if you now install Suse it will overwrite what you just did. I mention it just to make you feel safer about being able to get back to windows.
I recommend option 2 without option 1
Thanks for the help, though theres a small problem. The computer isn’t recognizing the Opensuse installation DVD and I don’t have the Windows XP installation DVD handy (went back to college and left it boxed up at family residence).
Would there possibly be a third option 
to solving this issue. If it helps, I do have two laptops I can use to download files too install into the computer having issues. Unforunetly I don’t have a cable or device to connect the internal HD in question to my laptop.
However, is there any possible way to connect an ethernet line from my laptop to the computer, to gain access, even if the computer isn’t fully booted?
I’m willing to try just about any creative or innovative possibility that keeps me from losing the data I have in those drives.
Please let me know what you think.
Mike
- Any person’s xp install cd will do the fix.
- Also you can boot anyone’s windows 98 cd and use the command:
fdisk/mbr (or is it fdisk /mbr with a space – memory?) - or this Google search throws up downloadable versions of fixmbr (watch for virii):
download fixmbr - Google Search
I think its the same what my professor too said. he got me solved that problem by sditing the file in bootloader…
Is this right?
I think my professor too said the same. he got me solved by editing the vmlinuz file in bootloader. is this right? Now i got another problem.
Pl see that too i hv posted in.
Not vmlinuz, perhaps menu.lst