Warty and Hoary Installation Problem

[David Heintz]

On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 21:48 +0000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
> On 2005-03-19, David Heintz <david.heintz at comhem.se> wrote:
> > I tried with 
> >
> > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1
> >
> > (also exchanged "hda1" for "hda", "sda1" and "sda") but got
> >
> > Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition
> 
> Did you try the "find /vmlinuz" command as suggested at
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/GNU-Linux.html#GNU%2fLinux
> ?
> 
> -Mary
> 

I discovered I had the wrong settings in BIOS for boot priorities. I
believed them to be correct, since I had a working SuSE system on the
machine, before formatting the drive. But I was -- luckily(!) -- wrong.
The problem was resolved.

Thanks for your replies!

Regards,
David