[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

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