I have a debain machine which i cloned from another machine.  The

cloning seemed to work perfectly but when i try boot the machine i get a

 

Grub error 17

Grub manual:

Error17:

" 17 : Cannot mount selected partition

This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the

filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB.

"

 

So i booted the machine from a knoppix live cd and mounted the linux

files system ..

 

Menu.lst

-----------

 

default         0

 

## timeout sec

# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the

default entry # (normally the first entry defined).

timeout         5

 

# Pretty colours

color cyan/blue white/blue

## ## End Default Options ## title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-386

root            (hd0,0)

kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro

initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386

savedefault

boot

 

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8-2-386 (recovery mode)

root            (hd0,0)

kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro single

initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386

savedefault

boot

 

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8

root            (hd0,0)

kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8 root=/dev/hda1 ro

savedefault

boot

 

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.8 (recovery mode)

root            (hd0,0)

kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8 root=/dev/hda1 ro single

savedefault

boot

 

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-1-386

root            (hd0,0)

kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro

initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-1-386

savedefault

boot

 

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-1-386 (recovery mode)

root            (hd0,0)

kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-1-386 root=/dev/hda1 ro single

initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-1-386

savedefault

boot

 

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

 

 

oddly the device.map file is different from the machine it was cloned

from

 

original machine

(hd0)   /dev/hda

 

But in the cloned machine it is

(fd0)   /dev/fd0

 

 

I tried adding hd0... to the cloned machine but it didn't make any

difference to the boot up

 

#fdisk -l

 

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

 

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/hda1 * 1 9642 77449333+ 83 Linux

/dev/hda2 9643 9729 698827+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)

/dev/hda5 9643 9729 698796 83 Linux

 

would someone be able to explain this to me..

 

I understand that linux usually has a linux partition (hda1)

and a swap partition (hda5)

 

but have no idea where that hda2 comes from .. don't even know what it

is, possible an empty windows partition or soemthing.  I just grabed a

new machine and started then cloning process.

 

i think this is some kind of partition problem ..

under a bit of pressure to sort this out today so if someone can give me

a hand be much appreciated.

 

Oh and the filesystem type is reiserfs.

 

Thanks in advance,

derek

 

Jeebers Ltd.
eBusiness Solutions

Derek Organ

Invent Centre, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

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