[PLUG] FC5 Boot problem
William A Morita
wamorita at hevanet.com
Fri Mar 24 23:55:28 UTC 2006
I have loaded FC5 into a free partition in my FC4 machine.
I find I have no way to boot the FC5 load in sda9.
The machine was already a XP/FC4 multiboot machine.
During the install I told it not to install the boot loader.
What I ended up with is an FC5 install in the new partition, complete with
its own /boot directory.
While there is a grub subdirectory, but it is empty except for the
splash.xpm.gz .
How do I boot sda9?
Booting into the existing FC4 on sda7, and fdisk -l gives:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20673 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1015 7673368+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda2 * 1016 3757 20729520 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 3758 18213 109287360 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 3758 4031 2071408+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 4032 4309 2101648+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 4310 7018 20480008+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 7019 9727 20480008+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 9728 12436 20480008+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda10 12437 18213 43674088+ b W95 FAT32
I am also puzzled why sda9 continues to read as a W95 partition.
I can mount it with : mount /dev/sda9 /scr -t ext3
- Bill Morita
wamorita at hevanet.com
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