Grub Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition
Hi. I have a laptop that came with Vista. I installed Fedora 8 and then Windows XP, so I got grub lost. I used the rescue option of the install DVD and chrooted to my original filesystem. I think I made the following mistake:
grub-install /dev/sda1 When I rebooted I didn't get grub, but Windows. Then I got to the rescue option of the DVD again and executed grub-install /dev/sda Now I got a b&w grub that lets me boot Windows, but when I try to boot Fedora I get: Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition I think I secrewed up something. Thanks |
When I edit the first line at the "Fedora" entry and change (hd0,2) to (hd0,1) and then escape and b to boot Linux boots.
I edited /etc/grub.conf and changed (hd0,2)'s to (hd0,1)'s. I got Linux back, but with "Grub loading stage 1.5" instead of "Grub loading stage 2". |
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sda win xp sdb Fedora 14 I did the grub>find /grub/grub.conf grub>root (hd1,0) grub>setup (hd0) as is stated in 10000 web sites I rebooted and got error 17 cannot mount selected partition and then appeared a text like grub menu offering (1) Fedora 2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686 (2) other I selected "other" and got error 13 "invalid or unsupported executable format" |
@kobtron fedora 8 is outdated, you may want to install fedora14.
@landomkelsey fdora14, I beleive uses grub2 lists drives as sda, sdb and so on. Try "update-grub" |
tried grub-install
grub-install was already there
got the same errors but there is hope...thanks grub for multiple OSs should NOT be such a mess. I've seen posts directing user to change fstab I don't want to be a PC repairman...I want to program C++ C# RDB Eclipse Qt |
It's a command
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[root@landon ~]# update-grub
Command not found. ^C [root@landon ~]# grub-update Command not found. ^C [root@landon ~]# grub --version grub (GNU GRUB 0.97) [root@landon ~]# man grub [root@landon ~]# whereis update-grub update-grub: [root@landon ~]# |
You have grub not grub2, I gave wrong command
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