Background: This is a dual boot (Windows XP and CentOS 5.2 (32 bit)
box. There were four (4) NTFS partitions. The C partition got full. I
deleted the 4 NTFS partitions and did a clean install of Windows XP,
into one (1) NTFS partition.
I knew that I would need to install GRUB again and I did that, using
the CentOS 5 Installation DVD. When I tried to boot into Linux, no
joy. this is the GRUB error I got:
Booting 'CentOS (2.6.18-92.1.17.el5)'
root (hd0,2)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x8e
Kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.17.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition
Press any key to continue
(same error, trying to boot the 2 older Linux Kernels)
The CentOS 5 Installation DVD apparently is now damaged (Murphy's
Law). I have available to me:
(a) CentOS 5.2 i386 Live CD (I am running on that, as I write this email)
(b) Knoppix Live Disk, V.5.1.1
(c) SystemRescueCD V.0.2.15
The partitions on my hard drive, as shown by QTParted on the Knoppix
Live CD are now:
01 /dev/hda1 ntfs Active
02 /dev/hda2 ext3 (/boot)
03 /dev/hda3 unknown (CentOS LVM)
My belief is that /hda3 is not mounted. If I click on the "Local Hard
Drives" Icon under "disc" it only shows hda2 (the Linux /boot
partition). How and where do I fix that?
When I view /etc/fstab as centos user with the CentOS 5.2 Live CD, I
see that the line I had to mount the NTFS data partition (E: when I
had 4 NTFS partitions) showed it as /dev/hda6
Now, the only NTFS partition, C, is /dev/hda1. Viewing it as
centos user, in gedit, it is read only. When I try to view it as root,
it shows me a /etc/fstab file that apparently is created by
the LiveCD and doesn't show the Windows partition. How do I edit the
/etc/fstab file so I can change it from /hda6 to /hda1? Here's the
file contents:
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/win ntfs-3g rw,umask=0000,defaults 0 0
TIA! Lanny
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