Fatal: open /boot/vmlinuz: No such file or directory

[InvoluntaryRebellion]

First off I apologize if this has been asked and answered already... searching the line above returned 20+ pages of results, none of which seemed to be relevant. I have used linux casually for quite a while, but this is my first time using LILO as a bootloader.

I followed the instructions on the RE Wiki video for dual booting Backtrack/Windows XP. I'd like to edit my lilo.conf to shorten the timeout and increase boot speed, but typing lilo -v after editing returns the following:

LILO version 22.8, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2006 John Coffman
Released 19-Feb-2007 and compiled at 01:09:42 on Jun 10 2007.

Reading boot sector from /dev/sda
Warning: bypassing VolumeID scan of drive flagged INACCESSIBLE: /dev/sdc
Using MENU secondary loader
Calling map_insert_data

Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz
Fatal: open /boot/vmlinuz: No such file or directory


What am I doing wrong? This lilo.conf worked when I installed BT3.



ba32 # Allow booting past 1024th cylinder with a recent BIOS
boot = /dev/sda
# message = /boot/boot_message.txt
prompt
timeout = 50
change-rules
reset
vga=791

disk = /dev/sdc inaccessible

# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda4
label = backtrack3
read-only
initrd = /boot/splash.initrd
# Linux bootable partition config ends

other = /dev/sda1
label = WindowsXP
table = /dev/sda

[purehate]

If you followed the dual boot video on the wiki that means you created a /boot partition so your problem is /boot is not mounted when you run the lilo -v command. You have a few options...
1) edit /etc/fstab to allow /boot to be mount automatically at boot time. (This is generally frowned on a defeats the purpose of a /boot partition.)

2) Mount boot by command line whenever needed. For example if /boot is at sda2 like in the video one would do this..

purehate@pwnsauce ~ $ mount /dev/sda2 /boot

Then just make sure your kernel is in the boot directory...

purehate@pwnsauce ~ $ cd /boot
purehate@pwnsauce /boot $ ls
boot config.bak grub kernel-2.6.25-gentoo-r6 lost+found memtest86
purehate@pwnsauce /boot $

Your looking for vmlinuz which is the name of the backtrack kernel by default.
*note Obviously I'm using another OS but the commands are the same.

[InvoluntaryRebellion]

Ah, I had forgotten that there was a seperate boot partition made in the install process... I thought for some reason my files had moved somewhere else. Considering I only needed to edit lilo.conf once, I just mounted and unmounted /boot.

Thank you for the answer... I don't know how long it would have taken me to remember that without it.

[calypso]

Pureh@te, I have installed BT3 with root/boot/swap partition like the tutorial said and just root/boot and just a root partition

1) edit /etc/fstab to allow /boot to be mount automatically at boot time. (This is generally frowned on a defeats the purpose of a /boot partition.)

What are the advantages of having a boot and swap partition and why is the boot partition not supposed to be mounted?

Calypso

[purehate]

Pureh@te, I have installed BT3 with root/boot/swap partition like the tutorial said and just root/boot and just a root partition



What are the advantages of having a boot and swap partition and why is the boot partition not supposed to be mounted?

Calypso

Calypso the theory is that if your kernel is on a separate /boot partition then it is safe from harm. For example if your whole system were to be corrupted in some way beyond repair then your kernel would be safe on a another partition. In order for this to work right I believe the partition has to be unmounted.
Its also a security measure because on someone with root access should be able to mount anything.
Swap is a cheap way to gain more memory. This was generally used on older machines with less memory than we have to day but in the world of 300+ gig hard drives, who cares to give a few gigs up to swap.

[spydergt]

*EDIT*

im a we todd , thats what happens when i spend everywaking second working on this laptop ,
i mistakenly though it mean hdc , and though it was the cdrom that was keeping me from moving forward
i just yanked all the usb sticks out and it worked


my bad ,



i've installed to my internal laptop hdd and i get all the way to lilo -v and get this

root@bt:/mnt/bt/etc# lilo -v
LILO version 22.8, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger
Development beyond version 21 Copyright (C) 1999-2006 John Coffman
Released 19-Feb-2007, and compiled at 14:08:06 on May 15 2008
Ubuntu

Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
Cannot proceed. Maybe you need to add this to your lilo.conf:
disk=/dev/sdc inaccessible
(real error shown below)
Fatal: open /dev/sdc: Read-only file system

im doing this off the live cd , no idea whats wrong ,

lilo.conf


lba32
compact
boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hda3
# disk=/dev/sdc inaccessible
# bitmap=/boot/sarge.bmp
# bmp-colors=1,,0,2,,0
# bmp-table=120p,173p,1,15,17
# bmp-timer=254p,432p,1,0,0
# install=bmp
# delay=20
prompt
timeout=50
# map=/boot/map
vga=0x317
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="BT4"
read-only
initrd=/boot/splash.initrd


fstab

GNU nano 2.0.7 File: /etc/fstab

/dev/hda3 / reiserfs defaults 0 0 # AutoUpdate
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # AutoUpdate
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 # AutoUpdate
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 # AutoUpdate
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 # AutoUpdate


it says add the hdc inacess , but that doesnt work , cause ive done that so ive done something wrong , followed the bt4 beta pdf ,

any ideas , im stuck ...