On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 15:02 +0200, Philippe Naudin wrote:
> Le Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:30:40 +0200,
> Mogens Kjaer <mk@xxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
> > On 06/08/2010 02:13 PM, Philippe Naudin wrote:
> > ...
> > >>> mount: error mounting /dev/root on /sysroot as auto: No such device
> > ...
> > > Any idea ?
> >
> > /etc/fstab looks good; now what's in your /boot/grub/grub.conf file?
>
> # cat /mnt/linux/etc/grub.conf
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
> # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
> # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
> # root (hd0,0)
> # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda1
> # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title CentOS (2.6.18-194.3.1.el5)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 ro root=/dev/hda1
> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5.img
>
> >
> > BTW, if you boot in rescue mode from the installation DVD/CD, does
> > it automatically mount everything?
>
> Yes, including swap, and dmesg doesn't report any errors. I chrooted
> to /mnt/sysimage and tried grub-install /dev/hda1 :
> Installation finished. No error reported.
> (hd0) /dev/hda
> ... but no better result after a reboot (exactly the same messages).
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after boot with rescue disk and chroot to /mnt/sysimage
the correct command is
grub-install /dev/hda # not /dev/hda1
Craig
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