On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:32 PM, MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> wrote: <snip> >> 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