Fw: Installation Problem

[Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.]

Trying again for a response.

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Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 16:21:53 -0400
From: "Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." <s.molnar at sbcglobal.net>
To: COLUG <colug at colug.net>
Subject: Installation Problem


I'm currently running SuSE v9.0 with the root on /dev/hda3 and thought
that I'd give RedHat Fedora a try (aster all, the price is right).

I downloaded the iso images and successfully burned the CD's.  The
Fedora installer checked them and they passed.

I decided to install Fedora on a different HD (I have 3 on the platform)
and told the Fedora installer to use /dev/hdb2 as the root directory,
the installer found the swap partition. The installer went ahead and did
so without any complaints and the installation went trundling along. 
Fedora uses the grub boot loader, which is what I've been using for a
couple of years now, and the installer found the SuSE partition and let
me select it as the default. So far, so good, or at least I though so
until I rebooted the system. Grub opened up with linux as the default,
and it turned out to be my SuSE partition.  Fedora was not in evidence,
nor could I mount the partition once I was up and running in SuSE.  The
error message is:

abnormal:/ # mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb2 /Fedora
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb2,
       or too many mounted file systems
       (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
       instead of some logical partition inside?)

In fact if I do fdisk on /dev/hdb it tells me that /dev/hdb2 is ID f and
the System is Win95 Ext'd (LBA).

I would at least like to be able to start the Fedora partition.  Does
anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.			Life is a fuzzy set
Foundation for Chemistry			Stochastic and multivariant
http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry


-- 
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.			Life is a fuzzy set
Foundation for Chemistry			Stochastic and multivariant
http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry