Fwd: Installation Problem

[pat at linuxcolumbus.com]

Stephen,

I did reply, you did not answer.

Pat


On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 12:21:05PM -0400, pat at linuxcolumbus.com wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:54:27AM -0400, Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. wrote:
> > >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:
> > >
> 
> What does /boot/grub/grub.conf look like?  Does it have an entry to boot
> from the fedora partition?
> 
> 
> > >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).
> > >
> 
> You are trying to mount the extended partition.
> 
> Pat 
> _______________________________________________
> colug mailing list
> colug at colug.net
> http://www.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug
>