--- On Mon, 8/2/10, Edward Diener <eldiener at tropicsoft.com> wrote: > From: Edward Diener <eldiener at tropicsoft.com> > Subject: [CentOS] Manually mounting partitions in "linux rescue" mode > To: centos at centos.org > Date: Monday, August 2, 2010, 9:07 PM > I boot from the installation DVD, > with an already existing CentOS 5.5 > system on my hard disks. I have separate boot, root, and > home > partitions. I have moved the boot partition and now I need > to > re-initialize grub from rescue mode. > > Attempting to use 'rescue mode" to automatically mount my > system under > /mnt/sysimage eventally fails with an error message, which > essentially > says 'mount error' and nothing else. I am then put at a > command prompt > as root. > > So now I decide to manually mount my partitions at > /mnt/sysimage and > then do a chroot to /mnt/sysimage. This succeeds and when I > look at my > files they are there. > > I now try 'grub' and the 'grub' shell comes up. I now > attempt the 'grub' > command: > > root (hd0,9) try /dev/sdb8 -> (hd1,7) -- Mark