I have a debain machine which i cloned from another machine. The
cloning seemed to work perfectly but when i try boot the machine i get a
Grub error 17
Grub manual:
Error17:
" 17 : Cannot mount selected partition
This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the
filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB.
"
So i booted the machine from a knoppix live cd and mounted the linux
files system ..
Menu.lst
-----------
default 0
## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the
default entry # (normally the first entry defined).
timeout 5
# Pretty colours
color cyan/blue white/blue
## ## End Default Options ## title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-386
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386
savedefault
boot
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-386 (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386
savedefault
boot
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8 root=/dev/hda1 ro
savedefault
boot
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8 (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8 root=/dev/hda1 ro single
savedefault
boot
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-1-386
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-1-386
savedefault
boot
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-1-386 (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-1-386
savedefault
boot
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
oddly the device.map file is different from the machine it was cloned
from
original machine
(hd0) /dev/hda
But in the cloned machine it is
(fd0) /dev/fd0
I tried adding hd0... to the cloned machine but it didn't make any
difference to the boot up
#fdisk -l
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 9642 77449333+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 9643 9729 698827+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 9643 9729 698796 83 Linux
would someone be able to explain this to me..
I understand that linux usually has a linux partition (hda1)
and a swap partition (hda5)
but have no idea where that hda2 comes from .. don't even know what it
is, possible an empty windows partition or soemthing. I just grabed a
new machine and started then cloning process.
i think this is some kind of partition problem ..
under a bit of pressure to sort this out today so if someone can give me
a hand be much appreciated.
Oh and the filesystem type is reiserfs.
Thanks in advance,
derek
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