Lanny Marcus wrote: > > Booting 'CentOS (2.6.18-92.1.17.el5)' > root (hd0,2) > Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x8e > Kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.17.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet > > Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition > Press any key to continue > > > 01 /dev/hda1 ntfs Active > 02 /dev/hda2 ext3 (/boot) > 03 /dev/hda3 unknown (CentOS LVM) > > AFAIK,in centos or fedora a boot partition cannot reside in an LVM volume.a boot partition must be a regular ext2 or ext3 file system. or are you trying to boot from from wrong partition ? /dev/hda2 is labled as boot and is an ext3 filesystem. so i am inclined to believe that is the partition where the vmlinuz and initrd file resides. you need to change the line "root (hd0,2)" to "root (hd0,1)" during booting.