Re: [CentOS] Reinstalled Windows and GRUB - Cannot boot Linux - fstab and grub.conf errors?

2008-11-10 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 9:06 AM, partha chowdhury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: snip 01 /dev/hda1 ntfs Active 02 /dev/hda2 ext3 (/boot) 03 /dev/hda3 unknown (CentOS LVM) AFAIK,in centos or fedora a boot partition cannot reside in an LVM volume.a boot

Re: [CentOS] Reinstalled Windows and GRUB - Cannot boot Linux - fstab and grub.conf errors?

2008-11-10 Thread Phil Schaffner
Lanny Marcus wrote: [snip] I have several Live CDs, but don't know how to get real root privileges with them. Often su - in a terminal window is all that's required to get root for a live CD. Phil begin:vcard fn:Philip Schaffner n:Schaffner;Philip org:NASA Langley Research

Re: [CentOS] Reinstalled Windows and GRUB - Cannot boot Linux - fstab and grub.conf errors?

2008-11-10 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Phil Schaffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: I have several Live CDs, but don't know how to get real root privileges with them. Often su - in a terminal window is all that's required to get root for a live CD. Phil: I think I tried that,

Re: [CentOS] Reinstalled Windows and GRUB - Cannot boot Linux - fstab and grub.conf errors?

2008-11-10 Thread Lanny Marcus
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Phil Schaffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lanny Marcus wrote: I have several Live CDs, but don't know how to get real root privileges with them. Often su - in a terminal window is all that's required to get root for a live CD. Phil: I'm running on my CentOS

Re: [CentOS] Reinstalled Windows and GRUB - Cannot boot Linux - fstab and grub.conf errors?

2008-11-10 Thread MHR
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:58 PM, Lanny Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the result of the mount command [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mount /dev/mapper/livecd-rw on / type ext3 (rw,noatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts

Re: [CentOS] Reinstalled Windows and GRUB - Cannot boot Linux - fstab and grub.conf errors?

2008-11-09 Thread partha chowdhury
Lanny Marcus wrote: 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 01 /dev/hda1 ntfs

[CentOS] Reinstalled Windows and GRUB - Cannot boot Linux - fstab and grub.conf errors?

2008-11-08 Thread Lanny Marcus
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,