--- On Mon, 8/2/10, Edward Diener <eldiener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Edward Diener <eldiener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Manually mounting partitions in "linux rescue" mode
> To: centos@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, August 2, 2010, 9:07 PM
> I boot from the installation DVD,
> with an already existing CentOS 5.5
> system on my hard disks. I have separate boot, root, and
> home
> partitions. I have moved the boot partition and now I need
> to
> re-initialize grub from rescue mode.
>
> Attempting to use 'rescue mode" to automatically mount my
> system under
> /mnt/sysimage eventally fails with an error message, which
> essentially
> says 'mount error' and nothing else. I am then put at a
> command prompt
> as root.
>
> So now I decide to manually mount my partitions at
> /mnt/sysimage and
> then do a chroot to /mnt/sysimage. This succeeds and when I
> look at my
> files they are there.
>
> I now try 'grub' and the 'grub' shell comes up. I now
> attempt the 'grub'
> command:
>
> root (hd0,9)
try /dev/sdb8 -> (hd1,7)
--
Mark
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