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oldstutz Member Registered: 2010-07-26 Posts: 24 [SOLVED] Error 17: cannot mount selected partition Hello all,I tried to install Arch Linux onto an external hard drive, I made a root grub error 17 cannot mount selected partition partition (ext3), and a little swap space. I flagged the root partition
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"boot" and I installed the grub loader onto the dev/sdb/ (not the root partition). Looked like a successful installation, error 17 cannot mount selected partition centos but when I restarted grub was loading and quit part way with the Error 17: cannot mount selected partition... the line above that stated "/boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sdb1 ro. sdb1 is my
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root partition. Since grub didn't fully load I'm assuming something is awry with it, perhaps the menu.lst. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Note: I would appreciate as much detail in the correction process as possible. I'm very interested Thanks!ALSO: I followed the beginners guide to the T Last edited by oldstutz (2010-07-27 03:19:58) Offline #2 2010-07-26 02:22:37 fsckd Forum cannot mount selected partition linux Moderator Registered: 2009-06-15 Posts: 3,578 Re: [SOLVED] Error 17: cannot mount selected partition try http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UUID aur S & M :: forum rules :: Community EthosResources for Women, POC, LGBT*, and allies Offline #3 2010-07-26 02:25:45 oldstutz Member Registered: 2010-07-26 Posts: 24 Re: [SOLVED] Error 17: cannot mount selected partition I'll give it a shot, during installation I'll use the UUID option. Thanks Offline #4 2010-07-26 02:51:04 oldstutz Member Registered: 2010-07-26 Posts: 24 Re: [SOLVED] Error 17: cannot mount selected partition Ok, I used UUID, and I got the same results, this time tho instead of "root=/dev/sdb1 ro" It had a long string of things and UUID in the mix. I read somewhere a similar problem, and they said something about because it is an external hard drive, grub confuses its hd(x,x) position or what not, but it didn't say how to fix it...Anyways, I'm off for tonight, I'll try again tommorrow. Last edited by oldstutz (2010-07-26 02:55:09) Offline #5 2010-07-26 03:05:19 itsbrad212 Member From: Chicago, USA Registered: 2010-01-23 Posts: 1,848 Re: [SOLVED] Error 17: cannot mount selected partition I remem
RAID 1 GRUB setup General support questions Post Reply Print view Search Advanced search 7 posts • Page 1 of 1 dejanst Posts: 124 Joined: 2011/09/20 14:13:13 [SOLVED] Problems with RAID 1 GRUB setup Quote Postby dejanst » 2011/09/20 14:57:32 I recently upgraded from CentOS 5.7 to CentOS 6 (32 bit) and I have some
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issues with setting up GRUB on both HDDs.The server is HP Proliant Microserver that is running 2 HDD's
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that have the same capacity. Both HDDs have the same partition layout, the partitions are properly combined in 8 RAID devices.Code: Select all
== BEGIN df -h ==
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md2 9.7G 349M 8.8G 4% /
tmpfs 440M 0 440M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/md0 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=101720 291M 38M 239M 14% /boot
/dev/md7 73G 180M 69G 1% /komna
/dev/md6 49G 180M 46G 1% /telos
/dev/md5 2.0G 35M 1.8G 2% /tmp
/dev/md3 7.7G 883M 6.5G 12% /usr
/dev/md4 4.9G 215M 4.4G 5% /var
== BEGIN fdisk -l ==
Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/md2 doesn't contain a http://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1269 valid partition table
Disk /dev/md3 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/md4 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/md5 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/md6 doesn't contain a valid partition table
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000f15fe
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1275 10240000 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda2 1275 1530 2048000 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda3 * 1530 1569 307200 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda4 1569 19458 143693824 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1569 7943 51200000 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda6 7943 8963 8192000 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda7 8963 9600 5120000 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda8 9601 9856 2048000 fd Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sda9 9856 19458 77128704 fd Linux raid autodetect
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes
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Forums Hosting Security and Technology Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. Results 1 to 9 of 9 Thread: Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition Tweet Thread Tools Show Printable Version Subscribe to this Thread… Search Thread Advanced Search Display Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode 06-20-2014,06:54 PM #1 SPaReK View Profile View Forum Posts View Forum Threads Web Hosting Master Join Date Apr 2002 Posts 919 Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition I'm a bit puzzled by this error. I have a server with /boot set up as a mdadm RAID1 partition. grub is installed on both /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. Code: dd bs=512 count=1 if=/dev/sda 2>/dev/null | strings Code: dd bs=512 count=1 if=/dev/sdb 2>/dev/null | strings Code: ZRrI D|f1 GRUB Geom Hard Disk Read Error Both drives have identical grub configurations Code: grub> cat (hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf Code: grub> cat (hd1,0)/grub/grub.conf The grub.conf file contains the section: Code: title CentOS (2.6.32-431.20.3.el6.x86_64) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-431.20.3.el6.x86_64 ro root=UUID=XXXXX rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd_MD_UUID=XXXXX SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 crashkernel=auto rd_MD_UUID=XXXXXXX KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=us rd_NO_DM rhgb quiet initrd /initramfs-2.6.32-431.20.3.el6.x86_64.img Yet, this won't boot. It hangs on boot with the error Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition The solution is fairly simple (assuming you have KVM/IP access) just edit the root line and change it to root (hd0,0). And I can also change this in the grub.conf file once the server is back up, so subsequent boots will work without intervention. But why isn't (hd1,0) working? I would think that either would work, since they are synchronized and identical drives. We recently had /dev/sdb fail on this RAID and it had to be replaced. So the reason I'm somewhat alarmed and puzzled by this, is what if it had been /dev/sda that had failed? Would the server have booted? Should (hd1,0) as the root work? Reply With Quote 0 06-20-2014,11:02 PM #2 manhalab View Profile View Forum Posts View Forum Threads Junior Guru Wannabe Join Date Jul 2009 Posts 70 error 17 means, file-system not recognized So in your grub.conf root(x,y) setting is not set correctly. May be this could help, https://www.cent