I don't think this made it to the list yesterday. At least I never saw it show up. -chuck -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: install problem Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 19:50:20 -0500 From: Chuck Campbell <campbell at accelinc.com> Reply-To: campbell at accelinc.com Organization: ACCEL Services, Inc. To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> CC: campbell at accelinc.com I shot myself in the foot today. I had a centos 5.11 install running fine. Doing a backup, I overwrote the /bin directory by mistake. I couldn't get my machine to recognize a centos 6.5 or 6.6 install dvd, so I put in the original centos 5.10 install disc and re-installed. No problem. During the text installer, I told it to install grub on /dev/sdc1, which is /boot. My raid arrays with lots of data (still intact) are /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, so I didn't want it to install grub on the MBR of /dev/sda. When I power it on, the kernel selection comes up, I select the (only) kernel and it says: Booting 'Centos (2.6.18-371.el5)' root (hd2,0) filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type is 0x83 kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-371.el5 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet Error 15: file not found Press any key to continue So it is finding the /boot/grub/grub.conf and reading it correctly. /boot (/dev/sdc1) actually contains the vmlinux-2.6.18-371.el5 file as well as all the other related files that belong there. I installed onto the same hard disk that the last OS was on, reformatting the /, /boot, /usr partitions and installing to them. /boot is /dev/sdc1 and / is on /dev/sdc5. No errors or problems in the install. should the root (hd2,0) line above actually read root (hd2,4) where the real / partition is (/dev/sdc5)?? I booted linux rescue with the 5.10 install disk, and I see that the /boot/grub/grub.conf file looks correct, and all the correct files are there in /boot. I am confused and don't know what to do next. thanks, -chuck --