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"

When I had this error, it meant that grub could not find the boot partition itself. (The boot PROM did, but grub doesn't see the disks the same way and can get lost.)

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.

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.

All is well now! :-) I corrected the line in /etc/fstab and I can see the NTFS partition. As I expected, changing the line in the GRUB boot menu, as the box was booting, did not survive a reboot. I edited the lines for the 3 Linux Kernels, in /boot/grub/grub.conf and that fixed that problem.... I knew I had to edit those files, and what MHR (Mark) explained to me tonight, and apparently a poster prior to him, made it *much* easier. I would like to learn how to do things with the Live CD, but as it turns out, I did not need that for this problem and it just added to my frustration. Thanks again, to everyone!