Problems mounting at boot...

Question

I just installed Arch and know that I must have done something wrong. Here is the error message:
Booting 'Arch Linux'
root (hd1,0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
kernel /vmlinuz 26 root= /dev/disk/by-uuid/53fe... ro
Error 17: cannot mount selected partition
Press any key to continue...
After I press a key it takes me back to the boot menu. Any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

Preston C. wrote:kernel /vmlinuz 26 root= /dev/disk/by-uuid/53fe... ro
No spaces, I think. Not sure if it makes a difference with the one after root=, though.
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/blahblah ro
Hope that works. If not, check to make sure that vmlinuz26 exists in the root directory of that disk's first partition (/dev/sdb1 for instance). If it's on a different partition on that disk, change the first line from (hd1,0) to (hd1,x) where X is precisely one less than the number of the partition it's on.
Oh, and just in case you're unaware, you can edit /boot/grub/menu.lst like any regular text file. I personally don't trust automagical configurizers, but that's just me. Oh, and if you hit the 'E' key on a menu item in grub, you can edit the line so you can trial-and-error your way to a boot, and edit your changes into menu.lst afterward to make them permanent.
Last edited by Seleucius (2009-09-14 10:50:23)