Matthew Dawson said... > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 11 July 2006 17:03, marc wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a little problem :-o > > > > Machine has Windows on sda2 vfat, which is the MBR. (sda1 is not used), > > Linux on sda3, sda4 contains sda5 swap, sda6 ext Linux, sda7 is vfat > > shared space. > > > > Here's the story, so far > > > > - moved Linux (on sda3) to a safe place while booted on another > > partition (sda6) > > - formatted sda3 as reiserfs > > - amended both fstabs (sda3 and sda6) > > - mounted the newly formatted sda3 partition > > - moved the data back onto sda3 > > - rebooted. > > > > Grub currently loads from /boot on sda3, or rather it doesn't now. I'm > > getting an error 17 : Cannot mount selected partition. I'm not overly > > surprised, but I'm not sure what to do next. > > > > I can mount the partition from a live CD without a problem, and I > > obviously mounted it from my sda6 partition. > > > > Suggestions welcomed. > > It would seem that grub only embeded support for ext2, which is what it > should > do because the partition was ext (it uses ext2 support for both ext3 and > ext2). What you have to do is embed the reiserfs support. > Try mounting the all the partitions as normal from a livecd, then chrooting > into it and running update-grub. That should fix the problem.
Just got back to this. Nope, update-grub only "updated" menu.lst, no changes to the initrd. -- Best, Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
