grub error 17 Cannot mount selected partition

[Evangelos Arkalis]

On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 17:25, biennas at ceid.upatras.gr wrote:
> loipon meta thn ektelesh ths entolhs   grub-install  /dev/hda  den mporw na mpo
> sto linux giati leei    error 17 : Cannot mount selected partition
>    (apo to internet frhka oti This error is returned if the partition requested
> exists, but the filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB.  alla den brhka
> kapoio tropo antimetopishs)    
>    antitheta sta windows mporw na mpw kanonika.
>     Eftixws exo mia boot disk kai mporw na mpainw sto linux.
> 
> Ti mporei na ftaiei???
> 
> to arxeio /boot/grub/grub.conf periexei ta ekseis:
> 
> default=1
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,5)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
>     root (hd0,5)
>     kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=/dev/hda5
>     initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
> title Windows XP - Windows 2003 Server
>     rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>     chainloader +1
> 
> to arxeio /boot/grub/device.map periexei ta ekshs:
> 
> # this device map was generated by anaconda
> (fd0)     /dev/fd0
> (hd0)     /dev/hda
> 
> to opoio dhmiourgithike apo thn entolh:        grub-install  /dev/hda
> kai emfanizontai ta ekshs:
> 
> Installation finished. No error reported.
> This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
> Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
> fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.
>  
> # this device map was generated by anaconda
> (fd0)     /dev/fd0
> (hd0)     /dev/hda
> 
> me thn entolh    fdisk -l /dev/hda      exoume:
> 
> Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>  
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *         1      4462  35840983+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2          4463      9728  42299145    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5   *      4463      5609   9213214+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda6          5610      5673    514048+  82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda7          8288      9728  11574801    7  HPFS/NTFS
> 
> sto susthma moy exo sto hda1 ta windows xp , sto hda5 linux , hda6 swap gia to
> linux , hda7 windows 2003 server
> to hda2 prepei na einai logiko diamerisma.
> 
> 
> Epipleon mhpws kseretai kapoio partition manager gia windows x sto linux giati
> to fdisk einai polu dusxrhsto (to disk druid pou emfanizotan kata thn egatastash
> pws mporw na to trexw?)
> 
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An exeis sto hda5 to linux tote prepei na dhlwseis:

    root (hd0,4)

ayto ginetai giati to grub metraei ta partitions apo to 0 kai oxi apo to
1. 
Dhladh:

 hda1=(hd0,0)
 hda2=(hd0,1)
 hda3=(hd0,2) ... klp