On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 03:43:18PM -0500, Charles MacDonald wrote: > > > >That's what refers to the partition. > >So, the kernel line only has to say > > > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz > > > Trying that at the GRUB prompt gives > > Error 17: Cannot mount Selected partition. > It sounds to me like grub doesn't have the support for the filesystem that is on /boot. You need a stage1.5 file for the type of root filesystem that you're using. For instance, my /boot/grub: mort@socrates:~$ ls /boot/grub/ device.map fat_stage1_5 menu.lst minix_stage1_5 stage1 xfs_stage1_5 e2fs_stage1_5 jfs_stage1_5 menu.lst~ reiserfs_stage1_5 stage2 You can see that there are stage 1.5's for ext2, fat, jfs, minix, reiserfs and xfs. Check that you've got the correct file for your filesystem. Otherwise, maybe you need to do some rescuing and re-install grub. I would boot the rescue, and then mount your partitions, mkdir /mkroot mount /dev/hda6 /mkroot (you might need a "-t reiserfs" or something) mount /dev/hda1 /mkroot/boot Then, try chrooting, chroot /mkroot /bin/bash Which, should chroot you into your normal root. And finally, reinstall grub: /sbin/grub-install If that doesn't work, then maybe re-installing the grub RPM wouldn't be a bad idea. Do it after you chroot.... rpm -Uvh /path/to/the/rpm/grub-foo..i386.rpm All of this is totally untested, but it should get you going in the right direction... mh -- Martin Hicks || mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org || PGP/GnuPG: 0x4C7F2BEE