2007/9/26, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > antonio montagnani wrote: > > a grub error, saying that: > > error 17: cannot mount selected partition > > > > I am booting from the CD: note that if I connect the same USB disk to > > another working computer I can see only /boot while LVM partition > > seems to be disappeared. > > If I run fdisk -l I see that an LVM partition is present... I suppose > > that I have to change thread title ;-) > > I would expect to be able to see the LVM partition, but not be able > to access the LVM file systems unless you are using a LVM-aware OS. > (You may run into problems there is the LVM labels are the same.) > > As for the Grub error, I am going to have to go over my notes. > (Where did I put them...) I suspect that for some reason Grub is > trying to access the wrong drive, ether for loading stage 1.5, or > when trying to access the /boot partition's file system. > > After the grub error, do you get the grub> prompt? I suspect not, > because it probably can not load stage 2. > right, no grub prompt But what is funny (let us say funny, as I had all my data backed-up), I didn't change nothing on my system, I didn' install grub, and I was still booting off my CD: I suspect that something happened to the disk when it was attached to a Windows system and the USB system of Windows detected it, may not clearly dismounted by M$??? Any idea how to recover the situation?? shall we change the title of thread??? > > > > > > -- > f > > -- Antonio Montagnani Skype : antoniomontag
