On 8/3/2010 12:22 AM, Mark Pryor wrote: > > > --- 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) The 'root' for grub is the boot partition, not the root partition. On my system the boot partition is /dev/sda10 -> (hd0,9).