FC5 install: grub can't mount partition

Chris Ruprecht chris at ruprecht.org
Tue Mar 21 18:15:10 UTC 2006


Did you change the LUNs on your drives or moved hardware around in the
machine after you installed FC5?

This looks like the drive that was sdc became sda. If you move the
controller into a different PCI slot or the like, this might happen.

On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 18:04 +0000, Colin Brace wrote:
> On 3/21/06, Mogens Kjaer <mk at crc.dk> wrote:
> 
> > Can you boot from the installation media in rescue mode?
> 
> I've booted a ubuntu live CD I had at hand, and I can mount the FC5 partitions.
> 
> > What's the contents of /boot/grub/grub.conf ?
> 
> [snip]
> 
> #boot=/dev/sda

This points to your first drive

> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd2,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

but this points to your 3rd drive (sdc). 

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