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[SOLVED]: Problems with booting SL6: Grub hangs
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Scott Nelson <[log in to unmask]>
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Scott Nelson <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 15 Jan 2011 14:47:34 -0600
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On Jan 15, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Scott Nelson wrote:

> I discovered that my BIOS was set to boot my second drive first (!!?!)
> Changing that so that my first drive is first, I get much further; I get into stage 1 and get
> 
> Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition
> 
> Press any key to continue...

In the grub.conf file, it had root (hd0,1) and /dev/sda2 is an LVM partition.  I guessed at changing my root to the same as /boot (hd0,0) and all is working now.
I guess the kernel and the initramfs things take care of getting an LVM going as my root partition.

Thanks.

Scott

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