On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 15:02 +0200, Philippe Naudin wrote: > Le Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:30:40 +0200, > Mogens Kjaer <mk at lemo.dk> a écrit : > > > On 06/08/2010 02:13 PM, Philippe Naudin wrote: > > ... > > >>> mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as auto: No such device > > ... > > > Any idea ? > > > > /etc/fstab looks good; now what's in your /boot/grub/grub.conf file? > > # cat /mnt/linux/etc/grub.conf > # grub.conf generated by anaconda > # > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file > # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that > # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. > # root (hd0,0) > # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda1 > # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img > #boot=/dev/hda > default=0 > timeout=5 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz > hiddenmenu > title CentOS (2.6.18-194.3.1.el5) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 ro root=/dev/hda1 > initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.img > > > > > BTW, if you boot in rescue mode from the installation DVD/CD, does > > it automatically mount everything? > > Yes, including swap, and dmesg doesn't report any errors. I chrooted > to /mnt/sysimage and tried grub-install /dev/hda1 : > Installation finished. No error reported. > (hd0) /dev/hda > ... but no better result after a reboot (exactly the same messages). ----- after boot with rescue disk and chroot to /mnt/sysimage the correct command is grub-install /dev/hda # not /dev/hda1 Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.