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silversnakeeyes

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From: Seattle, WA

Registered: 2009-11-14

Posts: 31

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Error: Cannot Mount Selected Partition, GRUB issues.

I'm triple booting XP, Arch Linux, and Ubuntu for a friend, and didn't I look stupid when it didn't work

Running from an intel 64 bit system on a brand new computer, using grub 1 (2 is WAY over complicated) It might also help to know that I had to install from an alternate Arch disk, since grub wouldn't boot. I used the lilo, internet setup version.

Current Menu.lst Setup:

title           MicroBuck$ Windows XP Professional
rootnoverify    (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader     +1

title        Ubuntu 9.10
uuid        6888b231-a605-4583-8ba0-a0fb743c5f33
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-17-generic root=UUID=6888b231-a605-4583-8ba0-a0fb743c5f33 ro quiet splash 
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-17-generic
quiet

title        Ubuntu 9.10 Recovery Mode
uuid        6888b231-a605-4583-8ba0-a0fb743c5f33
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-17-generic root=UUID=6888b231-a605-4583-8ba0-a0fb743c5f33 ro  single
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-17-generic

#main arch
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/acbafea2-f370-434a-9aa5-91a79127bcfc ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img

#backup Arch linux dude
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/acbafea2-f370-434a-9aa5-91a79127bcfc ro
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img

I copied the arch linux options straight from Arch's menu.lst, so I don't know what the problem is. Help?

edit: forgot to mention it's on /dev/sda6

Last edited by silversnakeeyes (2010-02-01 17:54:20)

skanky

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From: WAIS

Registered: 2009-10-23

Posts: 1,847

Re: Error: Cannot Mount Selected Partition, GRUB issues.

Check whaat device & partition your Arch installation is on, and then against the "root (hd0,5)" line.
The numbering goes:

sda1 = (hd0, 0)
sda2 = (hd0, 1)
...
sdb1 = (hd1,0)
sdb2 = (hd1,1)
etc...

If you're booting (grub) from the Arch disk, then it will be hd0, but if you're booting from a different disk, the number will be different. The partitions can catch you out as it's zero-based, as opposed to 1-based.

Doing

fdisk -l

can give the information.

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silversnakeeyes

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From: Seattle, WA

Registered: 2009-11-14

Posts: 31

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Re: Error: Cannot Mount Selected Partition, GRUB issues.

The results of fdisk -l said that the arch partition was NTFS/HPFS, although its ext3 in Gparted... maybe grub thinks its NTFS too?