Grub Setup Hd0 Error 17 Cannot Mount Selected Partition
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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 error 17 cannot mount selected partition grub external hard drive, I made a root partition (ext3), and error 17 cannot mount selected partition redhat a little swap space. I flagged the root partition "boot" and I installed the grub loader
Grub Filesystem Type Unknown Partition Type 0x83
onto the dev/sdb/ (not the root partition). Looked like a successful installation, but when I restarted grub was loading and quit part way with the Error
Cannot Mount Selected Partition Linux
17: cannot mount selected partition... the line above that stated "/boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sdb1 ro. sdb1 is my 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 grub error 17 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 Moderator Registered: 2009-06-15 Posts: 3,588 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
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
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RAID 1 GRUB setup Quote Postby dejanst » 2011/09/20 14:57:32 I recently upgraded grub rescue from CentOS 5.7 to CentOS 6 (32 bit) and I have some issues with setting up GRUB on both HDDs.The server is HP Proliant Microserver that is running 2 HDD's that have the same capacity. Both HDDs have the same partition layout, the partitions are properly combined in 8 RAID devices.Code: Select https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=101720 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 291M 38M 239M 14% /boot
/dev/md7 73G 180M 69G http://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1269 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 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
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