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Old 3rd June 2011, 08:06 AM
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Fedora 15 Cannot mount selected partition (new install)

I installed 15. I have reformatted the 500mb /boot partition, didn't touch the swap partition, formatted the / partition.

Trying to boot, I receive a "cannot mount selected partition". This is a fresh install.

I rebooted into the Live CD to do some FS Checks, and got kernal crash, black screen, lots of kernal output while in live CD trying to do FS checks. The only line that looks like it holds any info that may be relevant is the last of the lines that says:
Kernal Panic - Not Syncing: Fatal exception interupt PID 1161, comm:irq/21-0000:01: tainted: g d (kernal version)
Panic+0x91/0x19c

I did an FS check on /boot and it came back fine. I did an FS check on /, and it came back fine. But then I told it to do an FS check on swap and got the warning that swap is currently mounted, and that if I proceed, it could cause serious system damage, and asked me if I wanted to proceed. I chose no, and it crashed.

---------- Post added at 02:59 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:42 AM ----------

wait, i think i found the problem. It APPARENTLY installed /boot as ext4. Reinstalling now. Will update momentarily...

---------- Post added at 03:06 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:59 AM ----------

Nope, i explicity made sure i installed ext3 on boot this time, and it still gives the same boot error, AND i KEEP getting that kernel crash...

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Old 3rd June 2011, 09:29 AM
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Re: Fedora 15 Cannot mount selected partition (new install)

What's funny is, if i play around and let Fedora "replace existing system" it selects ext4 for /boot. I thought that grub couldn't do ext 4? Anyway, the /boot has ext3 right now, and i'm still getting that error.

I have my drive mode in bios switched from IDE to AHCI, but i doubt that would be it...

---------- Post added at 03:26 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:14 AM ----------

ok, i deleted /boot, swap, and /, and recreated them (as opposed to just "reformatting them and installing on them", and i got a BOOT! So, hopefully this is resolved...

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I think that i found the cause of all of the crashes and kernel panics:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...49#post1480149


===EDIT===
I'm just going to mark this whole issue as a "fluke". I don't know WHY, or IF, the act of deleting existing partitions and recreating them, as opposed to formatting alone, was the issue. If that was the issue, then i would assume that this is a Bug; but since i've got 1 drive that just went out on my raid, and 1 drive that's about to go out soon (the OS drive is NOT a part of the raid), i'll just assume that the raid screwing up somehow affected it's ability to boot, and that this may not have been the result of a bug in F15's installer CD. So, as far as i'm concerned, this is a non-issue.

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