On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:32 PM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
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Question: Is /hda3 mounted properly? I don't think so, because when I try to boot Linux from the Grub menu on the HD, it gives me "Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition"
Someone just answered earlier in this thread that you need to change your hd(0,2) to hd(0,1) on the grub boot line. That should work. You don't need to do this from any special rescue boot, just boot the system, and when the grub stage 2 boot selection shows with its countdown, stop it (with the space bar) and use the grub shell to edit that line and it _should_ boot properly.
Mark (MHR) and the earlier responder who previously mentioned to change to "root (hd0,1)" in the GRUB boot menu. A_SPECIAL_THANK_YOU! That got me into CentOS5.2.... :-) I did notice an error message, when the box was booting, "mounting local filesystems failed" but I think that has to do with mounting the NTFS partition, which I will fix in /etc/fstab after I send this message.
If WCTW, instead of downloading the CentOS 5 DVD, just pull down the first CD image and burn that. It's a lot shorter than the whole DVD, and it's all you need to get into rescue mode.
OK. I will download the first CD, but not tonight, since my CentOS 5 Installation DVD is now toast. I ran into this problem, Saturday afternoon, and the list is very slow on weekends and then our ADSL went down, because there was a bad card in the phone company Router or some other HW in our subdivision. To everyone who replied, THANK YOU! Lanny
glad to know the problem was solved. it was my first post on the ML that actually helped someone !
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:14 AM, partha chowdhury kira.laucas@gmail.com wrote:
glad to know the problem was solved. it was my first post on the ML that actually helped someone !
I will reread that thread later. I have helped a few people also and it makes me happy, when I can do that, and not just ask for help from the list. Thank you!
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:14 AM, partha chowdhury kira.laucas@gmail.com wrote:
glad to know the problem was solved. it was my first post on the ML that actually helped someone !
That somehow seems to make it all the more worthwhile. It's great getting answers to questions I post, but giving them when I know them is way better.
mhr
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:53 AM, MHR mhullrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:14 AM, partha chowdhury kira.laucas@gmail.com wrote:
glad to know the problem was solved. it was my first post on the ML that actually helped someone !
That somehow seems to make it all the more worthwhile. It's great getting answers to questions I post, but giving them when I know them is way better.
That's for sure Mark. Better to give than to receive. You cleared up the cobwebs for me, last night. The actual solution was quick and easy. :-)
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