Re: error: You have to load the kernel first

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 09:01:20PM +0530, shirish wrote:
> Hi all,
>     First of congratulations on having a help-grub mailing list.
> 
> Now on the issue, I'm running grub 1.96
> 
> I did the grub-install '(hd0)"  which happened without an error.
> 
> Now I get both grub legacy  0.97 as well as grub 1.96 menus and both
> equally good-looking menus with one difference.
> 
> The grub 0.97 boots while if I try booting from 1.96 this is the output :-
> 
> Booting 'Debian GNU/Linux linux 2.6.24-7-generic'
> 
> error: You need to load the kernel first.
> 
> Press any key to continue.
> 
> pressing any key brings me back to the grub 1.96 menu.

Sounds like the "linux" command failed for some reason.  Could you run it
manually and see if it reports an error?

-- 
Robert Millan

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