Nick Rout <nick <at> rout.co.nz> writes: > "17 : Cannot mount selected partition > This error is returned if the partition requested exists, but the > filesystem type cannot be recognized by GRUB." > > which suggests that the filesystem that has the grub stage* files is > borked. > > now whats wrong with booting off your install cd?
Good point nick, I'm going to try the install cd to recover the system. I did not know if there was something slick out there to recover a forked_up gentoo system.... thanks James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
