Timeout Error Starting MySQL

I'm having a bit of trouble here with MySQL, I don't know what to do. Centos 4.3, Mysql 4.1

Data is stored in /var/lib/mysql/

I'm looking to move that information to a second hard drive soon, and did a quick test of just copying it to another place on my existing drive. It won't start.

Quote:

[root@localhost ~]# service mysqld start
Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon.
Starting MySQL: [FAILED]

Error logs

Code:
071106 12:14:33 mysqld started
071106 12:14:33 [Warning] Can't create test file /var/lib/mysqltf/localhost.lower-test
/usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't change dir to '/var/lib/mysqltf/' (Errcode: 13)
071106 12:14:33 [ERROR] Aborting

071106 12:14:33 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Shutdown complete

071106 12:14:33 mysqld ended

071106 12:17:00 mysqld started
071106 12:17:00 [Warning] Can't create test file /var/lib/mysqltf/localhost.lower-test
/usr/libexec/mysqld: Can't change dir to '/var/lib/mysqltf/' (Errcode: 13)
071106 12:17:00 [ERROR] Aborting

071106 12:17:00 [Note] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Shutdown complete

071106 12:17:00 mysqld ended
I have tried even chmod 777ing the msyqltf folder (my copy) to no avail.

my.cnf

Code:
[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysqltf/
socket=/var/lib/mysqltf/mysql.sock
# Default to using old password format for compatibility with mysql 3.x
# clients (those using the mysqlclient10 compatibility package).
old_passwords=1

[mysql.server]
user=mysql
basedir=/var/lib

[mysqld_safe]
err-log=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid

I've tried moving it to different locations. I even tried moving the original folder and renaming it, and still get this problem.