On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 03:28 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This solves the boot error "Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition" > God I hate grub. Even it's error messages fail the basic rules > (report > the error with enough detail to make it clear: "Error 17: Cannot mount > selected > partition 0 as root"), let alone report that it's misconfigured before > letting you (try to) reboot.
grub does not mount any partition as root - claiming that it tried to would be false! Grub mounts any partition its told to to obtain the kernel and initrd. It does so without the kernel filesystem logic, and via direct drive access, so grub with /boot on md devices is always going to be rather fragile. Once its got the initrd and kernel, it decompresses, places them together in memory, and chains into the kernel - at which point hardware detection and so forth start to take place. -Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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